Heads up for mono-2.2

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 11:54, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit :
>
> On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 18:28, James Hubbard wrote:
>> 2008/11/25 Till Maas <opensource at till.name>:
>> > On Tue November 25 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> >> The magic of -n will mean confused bug reporters that waste time
>> >> searching for an srpm that does not exist anymore
>> >
>> > Why should people search for this srpm?

Because all our tools including bugzilla list srpm names, not rpm names.

>> > And if there
>> are not,
>> > then they will at least learn how to search for an srpm the right
>> way, after
>> > they reported a bug.

To report a bug they need to know the srpm name

>> I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be a
>> problem.  Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out.

> You can always check which src.rpm a package was built from with rpm
> -qi.

You can do a lot of things, but my point is
1. most people won't bother and therefore
2. magic packages where the rpm -> srpm relation is not obvious are
just introducing drag and problems in the Fedora workflows.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot