Bug reporting URL field in packages

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:29 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> With that, the %{name} part is expanded at build time to effectively the
>> source rpm name, and the rest is up to query-time expansion. The extension
>> could return empty if the macro expansion fails (ie when _bugurl_os isn't
>> defined). Something like fedora-release could provide the %_bugurl_os
>> definition by default, and downstream distros, IT admins etc could
>> override it to whatever appropriate. It also permits controlling the
>> bugurl for packages from different sources like 3rd party repositories.
>> And changing the bug tracker base address doesn't require mass-rebuild.
>>
>> That's trivial to implement, but would that be sufficient to cover the
>> concerns over arbitrary downstream distros pointing to Fedora bugtracker
>> etc, or should I just let it be?
>
> Hrm, how does it help for 3rd party packages?  They would hardcode the
> entire string into their rpms?

They could hardcode the entire string or use their own macro for it, like 
%{_bugurl_myrepo} and provide a macro in their -release package that 
provides the macro definition.

 	- Panu -