RPM Idea...

[Casey Dahlin]

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Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> Hello,
>   With absolutely no knowledge of how complex an idea/request this is.
> But I was about to try to file a bug against a fedora package, and
> wondered, is this even *from* fedora.. where's the upstream
> bugzilla/tracker.. etc. So I wondered, how it sounds to have a field in
> the spec file with urls of bugzilla locations (in my mind even better if
> possible would be to the direct url to post a bug)
> 
> So for example in my case I'm posting a bug against mkinitrd. It would
> be great if I could do rpm -qi mkinitrd and find
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&component=mkinitrd
> 
> The bug I'm filing wouldn't trigger or be able to use bug-buddy. You
> could also perhaps have more than one location for upstream projects
> which have their own bug tracker...
> 
> Anyway, just a thought... I realize it isn't perhaps perfect, but would
> help... Heck from there it would be simpler to tie into something like
> bug-buddy or some other method to post bugs through a 'local' gui which
> knows how to get the right info from the rpm as to where to post bugs,
> and what type of bug posting system it is...
> 

Adding non-functional metadata to rpm doesn't seem to be difficult, and
it looks to me like it would be handled just fine by versions that
didn't "support" the new tag (its been awhile since I looked at the rpm
file format though, so I could be wrong). I'd take it upstream to learn
more about the policies and procedures for this sort of change.

- --CJD
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