On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, David Timms wrote: > On 17/07/10 08:12, Christoph Wickert wrote: > ... >> It refers to "bugs" and thus *covers* all bugs. You should first try to >> fix it yourself and upstream the fix if it's not Fedora specific. If you >> cannot fix the problem yourself, ask upstream for help. > Many packagers are not programmers, and even those that are, work in > entirely different worlds and are not familiar with thousands or 10,000 > lines of code. To actually fix one bug might take work in spare over a > month to make any progress at all. And it isn't obvious when something > goes wrong in a library the app is using, whether it is the usage of the > library, or the library itself that is at fault. > > Could rpm spec have a URL of upstream bug reporting system ? Well, rpm does have BugURL tag which could be used for /something/. The original idea was to point it to http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/%{name} via buildsys macros but then folks didn't want that afterall so it remains unused. - Panu - -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
