Lack of update information
Chris Weyl
cweyl at alumni.drew.edu
Thu Jan 29 20:20:27 UTC 2009
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:38 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
> > Good job :-) But this whole exercise is futile. We DO ALREADY ship both
> > the ChangeLog and the NEWS files in the documentation directory, either
> > with the library or development package. How is repeating or summarizing
> > these internal changes *on Bodhi* useful to anyone ?
>
> Kevin's summary does something the NEWS file does not - it calls out a
> particular crasher bug that could affect user applications. IMHO, that
> is the only truly compelling reason a user has to apply this update and
> it is the most user relevant part of Kevin's description.
We already provide the ability to link to bugs in the update; I don't
see the logic in duplicating the information here.
-Chris
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Chris Weyl
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