On Wednesday 27 February 2008 20:43:05 wrote Pascal Bleser:
Christian Morales Vega wrote:
Sometimes do you find packages in the OBS that are outdated. You never know why, perhaps the packager doesn't knows about the new upstream version and perhaps he knows but is just busy. Up to now when I found such a case I reported it like an "Enhancement" bug in bugzilla. But some packagers think bugzilla isn't the correct place for such a thing.
If the packager doesn't knows about the new version he can leave the package outdated for a long time. So would be good that, at some time, if an user finds the problem he reports it. But, how should be reported? There is any feature planned in the OBS to help with this? What other distros do?
A very good point.
Personally, I think Bugzilla is the best place to report it. It also makes it much easier to track the status.
The problem is finding the relation package->packager, to know whom to assign the Enhancement request. IIRC there's the option for packagers to include bugzilla information in their OBS projects and packages now -- I haven't looked at it yet, so I can't say much more about it. But it should really be made easily available to end-users.
yes, there is. You can define a "bugowner" role in the project or package. A link to bugzilla will be shown in build.o.o afterwards.
IMO the easiest option would be to use the %PACKAGER tag in the rpm files for that ("rpm -q --qf '%{PACKAGER}\n' foobar" or "rpm -qi foobar"), but it would require adding that feature to the OBS (or rather, to build).
The problem with that was that people tend to mail the packagers directly instead of using bugzilla. So, I personally fear that reports get duplicated and not tracked in bugzilla anymore .. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: adrian@suse.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org