Updates lacking descriptions

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Thu Aug 13 06:44:25 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 22:24 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:06:56PM -0700, Jesse W wrote:
> > What would be a good next step for me to take to help get descriptions  
> > added to these updates (and make sure this happens less often in the  
> > future) ?
> 
> It should fall back to taking the description from the changelog (in
> fact, I think it already does that right now).
> 
> Don't make package maintainers write 'New upstream release X.Y.Z'
> any more often than they have to ...

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_guidelines#Update_Descriptions

suggests:

  3. For new upstream releases, a summary of the important changes 
     and/or a link to the upstream changelog

Cheers,
Mark.




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