Changelog entries for post-release updates

Clint Byrum clint at ubuntu.com
Wed Feb 1 04:32:12 UTC 2012


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.



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