Re: Tangent: recording upstream scm locations and contact info

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2008/10/9 Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu October 9 2008, Michael Stone wrote:
>
>> On a tangential note, I'd _love_ it if specfiles started growing
>> metadata pointing back to upstream scm repos and development fora. This
>
>> P.S. - I'd definitely appreciate it if folks who are more knowledgable
>> about Fedora and RPM could suggest ways that I might pursue this goal
>> within the larger Fedora/RPM community.
>
> Why do you want it in the specfile? Imho it would fit better within the
> packagedb. There it should be also easier to add it, given that packagedb
> upstream accepts patches for this.

Actually, it'd be even better if this was in the RPM headers and would
show up in a "rpm -qi".

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