The rest of the template doesn't use placeholder text at all, so this isn't very consistent and this text ends up appearing in bodhi and PackageKit, which isn't very nice.
See also the discussion on devel: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-June/184641.html
[PATCH] remove the placeholder text from the update description 0001-remove-the-placeholder-text-from-the-update-descript.patch
This had been fixed in fedpkg already before, and fedpkg was separated from pyrpkg and be a standalone tool. So, this ticket can be closed. Thanks for your contribution.