Excerpts from Scott Kitterman's message of Tue Jan 31 19:04:29 -0800 2012: > When I install non-security post-release updates, I generally read the > changelog entries so I have an idea what's changed on my system. It would be > nice if there could be some text that actually explains what's going on. I > don't find this very helpful: > > ifupdown (0.7~alpha5.1ubuntu5.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low > > * Cherry pick fixes for label handling from upstream git (LP: #876829): > - http://anonscm.debian.org/hg/collab-maint/ifupdown/rev/100d6f75b985 > - http://anonscm.debian.org/hg/collab-maint/ifupdown/rev/2d171c8da8e5 > - http://anonscm.debian.org/hg/collab-maint/ifupdown/rev/f9cef973859e > - http://anonscm.debian.org/hg/collab-maint/ifupdown/rev/80a68bbbd45d > * Update test suite accordingly. > > I'm sure there are others, but this one I just hit, so I'm mentioning it as > an > example of what I think is a problem that's not very rare. I don't mean to > call out any individuals.
We, the SRU team, should have rejected this changelog, per point 4 on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates "Upload the fixed package to release-proposed with the patch in the bug report, a detailed and user-readable changelog, and no other unrelated changes." I have to agree with Scott that this was not user-readable, and perhaps this point should be stressed a bit. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
