On Monday 18 April 2016, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
I am only the messenger:
Internally at SUSE a developer was wondering about the automatically generated comment in our spec files: ------------------------------------------------------------------- # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/ # -------------------------------------------------------------------
It lead to a discussion at SUSE whether or not that comment actually makes sense in our spec files.
One of the questions was that information whereto submit bugfixes or comments should be different for users of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) products - for them it should not be http://bugs.opensuse.org/ but https://scc.suse.com/support/requests
On the other hand any users (regardless of openSUSE or SLE) if they are looking for information whereto submit bugfixes or comments would normally not get the source RPM and therein read the comment in the spec file so that such a comment in the spec file is probably "mostly useless" and misleading or even plain wrong for SLE users.
Therefore there is the proposal to no longer have that comment in the spec file at all because the spec file is not really the right place to provide such kind of information to users.
Now my personal opinion:
I agree to no longer have that comment in the spec file.
Good, BTW I also find it questionable that prepare_spec adds a SuSE copyright line and moreover it replaces the License. I don't think that's right.
I think what rpm reports for installed packages should show appropriate information to users.
FYI what rpm reports for installed packages on openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE Leap 42.1 versus SLES 12-SP1 and SLES 11 for the installed package "bash" that is used here only as an example: ------------------------------------------------------------ # cat /etc/os-release NAME=openSUSE VERSION="Tumbleweed" VERSION_ID="20160406" ...
# rpm -qi bash ... Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org Vendor : openSUSE URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html ------------------------------------------------------------ # cat /etc/os-release NAME="openSUSE Leap" VERSION="42.1" ...
# rpm -qi bash ... Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org Vendor : openSUSE URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html ------------------------------------------------------------ # cat /etc/os-release NAME="SLES" VERSION="12-SP1" ...
# rpm -qi bash ... Packager : https://www.suse.com/ Vendor : SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html ------------------------------------------------------------ # cat /etc/SuSE-release SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (i586) VERSION = 11
# rpm -qi bash ... Vendor : SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html ------------------------------------------------------------
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