"Jared K. Smith" <jsmith(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Michael Catanzaro
<mike.catanzaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps the update policy should have a guideline on the minimum amount
> of information required in this description. E.g. "update to latest
> upstream version" might be a perfectly acceptable description for Fedora
> given the fast pace of updates, but I don't think users should ever be
> seeing "no update information available" and especially not "here is
> where you give an explanation of your update." (And I've seen this one
> multiple times within the past couple of weeks.)
I tend to agree here. That being said, most of my package updates
are
something along the lines of "Update to upstream 2.5 release" -- would
you find that descriptive enough, or still lacking in detail?
FWIW, I tend to say "update to upstream release XYZ" and give a URL for
the upstream release notes for that version. This approach requires an
upstream that's well enough organized to have such a webpage for every
version, of course; but for my packages this seems to work fine. The
upstream notes tend to have way more info than I could cram into an
update description, anyway.
regards, tom lane