Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> Upstream-Bug-Browser: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=WWW-Curl
> Upstream-Bug-Submitter: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=WWW-Curl
>
> Which were furiously rejected by many people, in the usual and
> friendly tone commonly seen in -devel.
[...]
> But just now I saw this in the dpkg changelog:
>
> dpkg (1.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
> {..}
> * Add Origin and Bugs fields to the control file
> {..}
> -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:28:39 +0100
>
> Those were documented (or so) in deb-control(5) only last October, so
> it's no wonder nobody replied telling me that the idea I had was
> already implemented more than 7 years ago! Currently, there are about
> two source packages in the archive using these fields.
Those fields are unrelated to your proposal. Origin: is meant to be
a distribution name (Debian/Ubuntu/Xandros) and Bugs: should point
to the bug tracker of the distribution.
The goal is that reportbug <installedpackage> sends the information to the
right bugtracker even if you installed an external package on your Debian
machine.
There are plans to make real use of those fields in the not-so-distant
future, so don't reuse them for unrelated purpose.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch :
http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
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