Bug reporting URL field in packages

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Juha Tuomala wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 06 October 2009 15:48:32 Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> This was added to Fedora's rpm recently, what's still missing is the
>> default contents of the %{bugurl} macro in redhat-rpm-config.
>> Opinions wanted:
>>
>> a) just make it https://bugzilla.redhat.com
>> b) use http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/%{name}
>> c) something else, what?
>
>  d) use host part from rpm-config, and rest from package metadata.
>
> and then one would be able to change report database
> by modifying only one package.
>
> Something like:
>
> rpm-config %{bugreporthost} = http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
> package    %{name} = bacula
>
> --> %{bugreporthost}/%{name}
> --> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bacula
>
> Then downstream distros and IT-organizations could try to catch
> all reports to their own bug reporting systems before disturbing
> Fedora - as in many cases downstream may actually be the culprit
> for the problem after all.
>
> If that would not be possible, it would force them to rebuild
> all packages and burn rainforests while doing so.... or just
> waste Fedoraproject's hours for issues that doesn't belong there.
>
> This probably isn't something that cannot be fixed later, but
> while it's on plate....? ;-)

Something like that is quite easily doable by adding a RPMTAG_BUGURL tag 
extension which grabs its value from macro configuration if set, otherwise 
use the contents from the package.

It is out of scope for this discussion though, the question here is about 
the default value Fedora packages should have. The BUGURL tag contents is 
just a plain old string which is expanded from %bugurl macro at build time 
and currently no further processing is done on it.

 	- Panu -