Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
That is the point I completely disagree. It is a packager's very
job
to rehash upstream's changelogs. If a packager can't -at the very
least- give a brief report of what he has accomplished, then he should
reconsider his adequacy. At the minimal, a URL link to the upstream
changelog should be given in the Notes. If that doesn't exist, the
related parts from the changelog file can be copied and pasted. Not
all users are aware of /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}/ directories.
+1
Update notes of the "new upstream version" type are completely useless (and
completely blank ones obviously are, too). How hard can it be to provide a
link to the upstream user-readable changelog or summarize the changes in a
few sentences? Also note that a FSF-style ChangeLog listing every single
commit is NOT an appropriate change summary for the update notes! (And
sadly, that's what the ChangeLog in %doc often contains, if it even exists
at all, summaries are often only provided on some website.)
Kevin Kofler