Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 11:54, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit :
On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 18:28, James Hubbard wrote:
> 2008/11/25 Till Maas <opensource(a)till.name>:
> > On Tue November 25 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >> The magic of -n will mean confused bug reporters that waste time
> >> searching for an srpm that does not exist anymore
> >
> > Why should people search for this srpm?
Because all our tools including bugzilla list srpm names, not rpm names.
> > And if there
> are not,
> > then they will at least learn how to search for an srpm the right
> way, after
> > they reported a bug.
To report a bug they need to know the srpm name
> I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be
a
> problem. Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out.
You can always check which src.rpm a package was built from with rpm
-qi.
You can do a lot of things, but my point is
1. most people won't bother and therefore
2. magic packages where the rpm -> srpm relation is not obvious are
just introducing drag and problems in the Fedora workflows.
--
Nicolas Mailhot