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#9758: Update Manager changes notes for Human Beings
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Written by LostOverThere the 11 Jun 08 at 10:28.
Category: Others.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
You notice your system needs updates, quickly you click on the update manager, you're alerted to a critical update and click for the changes, "g_assert() over g_return_if_fail()"
"Wholly Carp Batman!" you think to yourself as you start to wonder why they call it Linux for human beings...
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This is our current issue - the Update Manager notes make no sense for the average user. Even power users don't want to remember what some sort of wacky command does, they just want to know the changes in plain English.
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Vadim P. wrote on the 11 Jun 08 at 12:12
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If it'll be something useful to the end-user, it'll say it. Otherwise, there's no real reason for the end user to care if some function was replaced with another one.
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qwicfingers wrote on the 11 Jun 08 at 16:00
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"...there's no real reason for the end user to care if some function was replaced with another one."
I disagree, I always care about the changes being made to My computer.
A simple sentence or two is much more user friendly.
A security issues has been identified in X that could allow an attacker to blah blah blah. More info here.
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A stability issue was found in Y this patch address that problem. More info here.
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bobbo wrote on the 11 Jun 08 at 21:09
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This is basically impossible to implement using the current system. The changelogs shown in update-manager are taken directly from the source package's changelog. It is important for this changelog to include detailed technical information so the packagers know when, why and how changes are made.
Adding another "changelog for human beings" field to a changelog is possible but it would mean mangling the Debian packages standard and that is something i am pretty sure Ubuntu want to avoid.
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Predator106 wrote on the 15 Aug 08 at 16:51
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It's like converting C++ to English, all it helps is the average users, and what could they do with that information, they don't need it nearly as much as the programmers themselves. Just an analogy.
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