Gesendet: Dienstag, 02. Februar 2016 um 12:16 Uhr Von: "Daniel Morris"
An: "Axel Braun" Cc: opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org, opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: [opensuse-factory] why there are so few packages in Factory, revisited
1. Some reviewers insist on adding a lot of lines to .changes files claiming that there are common practices to do so. But many packages do this differently. And personally I think it's plain wrong to add all upstream changes to fit into .changes when simply updating to a new upstream release.
+1 if someone is really interested in details, reading the changelog upstream should be sufficient.
-1 That requires a user to download the upstream package independently just because the packaging process has intentionally truncated or abridged the information - "updated from upstream" is about as useful as the "fixed some bugs" message popular on some mobile appstores.
Or am I misunderstanding how an end-user is supposed to inspect/query what has changed in a pre-built package using the tools provided by the package manager?
I feel so. An end user is not interested in the change log at all. A developer or packer may be interested, but mostly in case some things dont work. And in this case you have to dig deeper anyway.... Cheers Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org