Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Now that dpkg 1.7 has hit unstable and the first bugreporting tool (reportbug) supports it I figured it was time to get this into policy.
The basic idea of this is to have a way for packages to state where they are coming from, and where bugreports for them should be sent to. To do this two new tags are introduced in the control file: Bugs and Origin. Bugs indicate where bugreports should be sent to, and if supported how bug information can be retrieved. The value of this field is a URL, where the scheme indicated the type of BTS used and the hostname tells where the BTS is hosted. Currently defined schemes are: * debbugs (for example debbugs://bugs.debian/org ) debbugs BTS as used by Debian and others. Bugs are submitted to submit@<hostname> using Package, Version and Severity pseudo headers. Bugreports can be viewed via http://<hostname>/<package> * mailto (for example mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Bugreports should be sent through email. Like with debbugs pseudo-headers are used to provide extra information. Origin gives a package a way to indicate where it is coming from. This can be used to find information about its origin in /etc/dpkg/origins/<origin>. The origin information file there can list an Bugs field that overrides the Bugs field in the package itself. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
