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 -
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