Bug 701987

Summary:	Change Logs in rpms are useless some times.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	G. Michael Carter <mikey>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version:	15	CC:	dennis, rvokal
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Description G. Michael Carter 2011-05-04 13:27:25 UTC

It would be nice if we never have to leave the repoview or package kit page to find out what's actually being changed.   

From Systemd:  Would be nice if the issues were listed with description so you don't have to cut and paste each one.  What's in the "New upstream release"?

systemd-26-1.fc15.x86_64 [555 KiB]	Changelog by Lennart Poettering (2011-04-30):
- New upstream release
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699394
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698198
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698674
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699114
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699128

From Firefox:  I think that's obvious from the version number.   Would be nice to have more info, or even a link.  Better info so the person viewing the description in Package kit has an idea if they want to upgrade now or wait.

firefox-4.0.1-1.fc15.x86_64 [16.7 MiB]	Changelog by Christopher Aillon (2011-04-28):
- Update to 4.0.1

From mutter: great!  so what #700276, and where do I find that?

mutter-3.0.1-3.fc15.i686 [1.0 MiB]	Changelog by Matthias Clasen (2011-04-29):
- Actually apply the patch for #700276

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2011-05-04 18:20:45 UTC

Ideally, the point for user-useful update information is the update information, not the package changelog. It has standardized formats for bug numbers/fixes, for example.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2012-01-04 22:07:58 UTC

Closing this - 'distribution' really isn't the right place for this.

For individual packages with bad changelogs, please use bugs against the individual components.

For attempting to set a standard for changelogs, please see the Fedora Pacakging Committee at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FPC