#796087 Missing release notes

Package:
libdrm2
Source:
libdrm
Description:
Userspace interface to kernel DRM services -- runtime
Submitter:
Yuri D'Elia
Date:
2015-08-19 11:21:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#796087#5
Date:
2015-08-19 11:18:25 UTC
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I wanted to see what changed between 2.4.63 and 2.4.64 (mostly to see which
bugs were fixed) but couldn't find any release notes or even a rough changelog.

Indeed, I couldn't even find those on the drm page or repository, so I cannot
blame the packaging.

Somehow I would expect at least some minimal summary of changes which is not a
blunt "new upstream release". Ideally this would be provided upstream, and it
would be great if this request would be forwarded.

The git log between 2.4.63-64 would be terse enough to be acceptable, but no so
for 62-63. Maybe we could produce a summary of closed issues from
bugs.freedesktop.org automatically, which at least would be informative.

I ask because by using the intel drivers I'm constantly affected with an
endless stream of small glitches, which gets fixed in one release and just
pop-up again in a release or two.

I'd like some minimal set of release notes in all the affected
packages/libraries so I can judge myself whether upgrading is worth the risk,
given upstream doesn't seem too reliable in that regard.