Draft: simple update description guidelines
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 27 19:52:31 UTC 2009
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:48:45PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> * All Updates must refer to a upstream changelog or equivalent if one
>> exists. Otherwise a brief description (a couple of sentence at most)
>> justifying the need for an update must be provided by the maintainers
>> pushing the update.
>
> I'm happy this applies only to released versions of Fedora[1]. But I
> think this should also exclude 'newpackage' updates explicitly (ie.
> where a new package is added to a released version of Fedora).
Ah, yes. I will add a explicit sentence as follows:
* These guidelines are not applicable to updates in rawhide or for
completely new packages being introduced into the repository.
Thanks.
Rahul
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