Ticket #189 (closed enhancement: invalid)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

RFE: Add upstream mailinglist and bugtracker as optional spec file keywords

Reported by: ovasik Assigned to: RpmTickets
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: rpm Version: RPM Development
Keywords: Cc:

Description

It could be very useful to have keywords - which could be shown in --query --info or used by ABRT(or other reporting tools) for upstream mailing list and upstream bug tracker (e.g. MailingList?: bug-coreutils@gnu.org BugTracker?: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=coreutils ) in addition to upstream URL.

I think this might be very helpful for tools like ABRT - so some reports could be forwarded to upstream instead of distribution bug tracker - if the user has bad experience with package maintainer response.

Change History

11/18/10 11:42:45 changed by pmatilai

Rpm already has BugURL tag for this purpose since rpm 4.8.0 (and will be included in 'rpm -qi' output in rpm >= 4.9) ... but AFAIK nobody uses it for anything. Which historically has proven to be the case for nearly all such tags :-/

For cases where only a mailing list exists for a bugtracker, "mailto:bugs@foo.org" can be used for BugURL.

11/18/10 12:02:21 changed by ovasik

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

Ok, thanks for info, I maybe missed that in documentation when I checked the keywords on my RHEL-6 machine with 4.8.0 . You are right, mailing list could be provided via mailto:bugs@foo.org to it - and usually one of these is enough. So maybe just a bit more of new features propaganda in rpm docs/fedora wiki is needed... closing as invalid, sorry for the noise.