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

Fri Sep 28 11:35:34 CEST 2012

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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