Minor update of doc/developers.txt to point to the new resources on www.roundup-track...

[roundup.git] / setup.py

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 68e72195d38df26942c3e945f0ca90634da75a86..668f0b1a32c6137fcd5c8ab39056fc159856fd55 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -98,41 +98,30 @@ def main():
           version=__version__,
           author="Richard Jones",
           author_email="richard@users.sourceforge.net",
-        'description': "A simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system"
+          description="A simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system"
             " with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. Highly"
             " customisable.",
-        'long_description':
-'''In this release
-===============
-
-1.4.7 is primarily a bugfix release which contains important security
-fixes:
-
-- a number of security issues were discovered by Daniel Diniz
-- EditCSV and ExportCSV altered to include permission checks
-- HTTP POST required on actions which alter data
-- HTML file uploads served as application/octet-stream
-- Handle Unauthorised in file serving correctly
-- New item action reject creation of new users
-- Item retirement was not being controlled
-- Roundup is now compatible with Python 2.6
-- Improved French and German translations
-- Improve consistency of item sorting in HTML interface
-- Various other small bug fixes, robustification and optimisation
-
-Though some new features made it in also:
-
-- Provide a "no selection" option in web interface selection widgets
-- Debug logging now uses the logging module rather than print
-- Allow CGI frontend to serve XMLRPC requests.
-- Added XMLRPC actions, as well as bridging CGI actions to XMLRPC actions.
-- Optimized large file serving via mod_python / sendfile().
-- Support resuming downloads for (large) files.
+          long_description='''This version of Roundup fixes some bugs:
+
+- fixed action taken in response to invalid GET request
+- fixed classic tracker template to submit POST requests when appropriate
+- fix problems with french and german locale files (issue 2550546)
+- Run each message of the mail-gateway in a separate transaction,
+  see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.user/9500
+- fix problem with bounce-message if incoming mail has insufficient
+  privilege, e.g., user not existing (issue 2550534)
+- fix construction of individual messages to nosy recipents with
+  attachments (issue 2550568)
+- re-order sqlite imports to handle multiple installed versions (issue
+  2550570)
+- don't show entire history by default
+  (fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=540629)
+- remove use of string exception
 
 If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow
 the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation.
 
-Roundup requires python 2.3 or later for correct operation.
+Roundup requires python 2.3 or later (but not 3+) for correct operation.
 
 To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run::
 
@@ -163,9 +152,9 @@ Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as
 The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing
 discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of
 the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup
-is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ installation. It
-doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a
-disutils-based install script is provided.
+is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ (but not 3+)
+installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational,
+though an install script is provided.
 
 It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and
 a minimal skeleton) and five database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, metakit,