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Re: [opensuse-buildservice] Promote meaningful changelog entries!
- From: "Cristian Rodriguez R." <judas_iscariote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:41:07 -0300
- Message-id: <45DA89F3.4070906@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Marcus Rueckert escribió:
> right. but often users might care why you did the version upgrade. so it
> is nice to outline/summarize at least the most important changes.
does **users** actually read that ? probably only advanced users ;-)
IMO, the rpm changelog is not the place to be verbose about changes in
the packaged **software itself**, that's the reason why the NEWS ,
CHANGELOG and vendor websites exists. upstream authors already provide
that information why on earth we should duplicate information ?
> right. but often users might care why you did the version upgrade. so it
> is nice to outline/summarize at least the most important changes.
does **users** actually read that ? probably only advanced users ;-)
IMO, the rpm changelog is not the place to be verbose about changes in
the packaged **software itself**, that's the reason why the NEWS ,
CHANGELOG and vendor websites exists. upstream authors already provide
that information why on earth we should duplicate information ?
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