Package: debian-maintainers Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
(first thank you all for the tremendous job you are doing!) I have a suggestion from an end-user point of view: All too often when checking incoming updates (in Synaptic or other tools) the Debian changelog includes a mere mention "new upstream release". >From an end-user point of view, this is not very informative and less than useful in deciding whether or not the update should be installed at this time. I know that section 9.3 of the Debian New Maintainer's guide only requires listing the debian bugs that are closed by the new release (or by the maintainer's changes to that new release) and not anything else that may be in that new release . But for the convenience of the end-user, it would be nice if a summary of the upstream's changelog would be included too (like new features, UI changes, backward compatibility problems, etc..) This would avoid having to go hunt for it on every single package, and would make the whole process more user-friendly. Thanks, and sorry if this was not the right place to report this - I could not find a better fit. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
