Draft: simple update description guidelines
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jan 27 19:43:53 UTC 2009
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).
Rich.
[1] Although it will certainly mean I feel much less inclined to just
upgrade any released packages unless there's a security issue.
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