[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release pango-1.32.0-2.mga3

[Shlomi Fish]

Hello Jani,

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:37:36 +0300
Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012/9/27 shlomif <buildsystem-daemon at mageia.org>:
> > Name        : pango                        Relocations: (not
> > relocatable) Version     : 1.32.0
> > Vendor: Mageia.Org Release     : 2.mga3
> > Build Date: Thu Sep 27 22:04:25 2012 Install Date: (not
> > installed)               Build Host: jonund.mageia.org
> > Group       : System/Internationalization   Source RPM: (none)
> > Size        : 1062810                          License: LGPLv2+
> > Signature   : (none) Packager    : shlomif <shlomif>
> > URL         : http://www.pango.org/
> > Summary     : System for layout and rendering of internationalized
> > text Description :
> > A library to handle Unicode strings as well as complex bidirectional
> > or context dependent shaped strings.
> > It is the next step on Gtk+ internationalization.
> >
> > shlomif <shlomif> 1.32.0-2.mga3:
> > + Revision: 298828
> > - New release - mkrel 2 - bug fix for crashes.
> >   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684959 .
> 
> IMHO new release is pretty obvious and there's no need to mention it
> in changelog entry. 

Actually, there is. This way one can find where the release was changed
based on "svn log -v", and temporarily revert the working copy to previous
versions. This is because, unfortunately, there's no way to see the patches to
the working copy in the logs.

> I don't have strong opinion about URLs in
> changelog, but something fights against them. Haven't checked if
> they're useless (does rpmdrake support clicking them?).

You can always copy and paste them.

> 
> IMHO much better  %changelog entry would have been:
> 
> - add a patch from upstream to fix crashes (bgo#684959)

What the hell is "bgo"? We should be more helpful and explicit than that. See:

http://blog.trustedadvisortoolkit.com/what-do-you-mean-by-wdym/

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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