On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > * Origin > This lists the origin of a package. For all Debian packages this should > be `Debian'.
This matches what is defined for the Release file.. > * Submit-Bugs-To > An mailto URL to which bugs should be submitted. (It's a URL so > we can support other types of BTSes at a later date if needed) > * Submit-Bugs-Style > Style in which submitted bugreports should be formatted. Currently > the only option here is `debbugs'. IMHO both these are badly named and should be merged into a single field called 'BTS', or the longer 'Bug-Tracking-System'. This follows how all other RFC-822-like systems work. The value of this field would be a URI, eg: BTS: debbugs://bugs.debian.org BTS: bugzilla://bugs.mozilla.org BTS: gnats://bugs.gnu.org BTS: jitterbug://bugs.samba.org/bugs/ The scheme tag indicates the access scheme which must have well defined semantics. debbugs means bugs are submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], lookup for package bug lists is done with http://address/package, etc. jitterbug would indicate web-submittal using the jitterbug system at http://bugs.samba.org/bugs/. The double // is included because the URI must always specify an internet host. All schemes must have well defined automated access methods, preferably in a written specification someplace. [this rules out jitterbug AFAIK] It should also be made clear that the given BTS must be specifically for tracking .debs, not a general BTS like Mozilla's - and more importantly the BTS field for all debian distributed packages must be set to out BTS and not upstream's for that package. This field should also be included in the Release file, I will update the Release file document when this is properly decided on.. Now, aside from that - it is not entirely clear to me that this is even the best way to go. In fact, I think it may be quite harmfull. Consider, if Corel distributes Debian + Their Junk they will want to get bug reports for the whole thing not just their packages. Having them rebuild all our stuff just to change those fields is not entirely good for them - or us. The same basic argument holds for all commercial users of Debian, they will always want bug reports to go to their support staff, not ours. It would be considerably better if there were some way for dpkg to be able to store information from the Release file when installing a package, that way things like the BTS are tied to the download location, not to the person who created the .deb. Jason
