Tim: > > That does seem a bit of a misuse of the field. Clearly Apache is not a > > Fedora project, for instance. RPM.org's own site says this about an > > example it provides: > > > > "The Vendor tag is used to define the name of the organization > > producing the package. The data in this example is "White Socks > > Software, Inc.". Therefore, RPM will store White Socks Software, Inc. > > as the vendor of the package." > > <http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-tags.html> > > > > It really ought to identify the producer of a project, not the compiler > > of the source code. There's other fields for that (packager).
Jonathan Billings: > I think you are misreading the documentation. I don't really think so. "Packager" makes sense for the one building the package. Having only a URL pointing to the Apache website is a bit lame. And "Distribution" makes sense for a Red Hat / Fedora metadata. Looking at the description. Is "package" merely the RPM to install it, are they being that pedantic with the word, or do they mean the overall project (i.e. Apache)? Apache isn't just a binary, it's several of them, its the libraries, the documentation, etc., and *that* package of things was produced and assembled by them. If I compile someone else's project, doing nothing other than compile it, or assemble precompiled bits into some kind of tarball kind of thing, or crack apart someone else's tarball to make it a RPM. I'm hardly the producer of it, I just put it in a new box. And I probably can't fix bugs in their code, either. Anyway, it's far from a coherent use of the tag. And we wouldn't be having this conversation if it was straight-forward. Nor the preceding questions from Todd and Margo about whether something was Google or Fedora. Somewhere their should be a tag making it clear the project is Apache (or whatever other thing we're looking at that Fedora hasn't created), and not just a URL. > The Apache project is not writing the spec file for the package built > in The Fedora repos. It is not building the package, testing it, and > tracking updates. They should not receive bug reports on issues with > how httpd is packaged in Fedora. Not all bug reports are about the packaging. If Apache crashes while loading some very normal web content, for example, that's an Apache bug. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
