Can we please have a "packaging" bugzilla component and not close packaging bugs?
Sometimes it's not 100% clear whether a problem is in the packaging or upstream part of Wine, and packaging bugs are just as much legitimate problems as normal Wine bugs. WineHQ is often the best place to have that discussion as 1) more than one packager would see it, and 2) if we're doing something wrong a developer can tell us too. I think we discussed this idea last wineconf informally, although I'm not sure anyone committed to making it happen. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
Scott Ritchie <scott(a)open-vote.org> wrote:
Sometimes it's not 100% clear whether a problem is in the packaging or upstream part of Wine, and packaging bugs are just as much legitimate problems as normal Wine bugs. WineHQ is often the best place to have that discussion as 1) more than one packager would see it, and 2) if we're doing something wrong a developer can tell us too.
Bugzilla is not the best place for discussiions, wine-devel is a better one IMHO. Usually the packaging bugs are detected by comparing behaviour of a pre-packaged Wine version with the one built by a user from source. It's a common practice to mark the bugs invalid if there is nothing that could be fixed in Wine to make the bug disappear, and the packaging bugs are of that category. It would be expected that a packager has some bug tracking system already. Or you have some specific bugs in mind that are not clearly the packaging problems? -- Dmitry.
Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> writes:
Scott Ritchie <scott(a)open-vote.org> wrote:
Sometimes it's not 100% clear whether a problem is in the packaging or upstream part of Wine, and packaging bugs are just as much legitimate problems as normal Wine bugs. WineHQ is often the best place to have that discussion as 1) more than one packager would see it, and 2) if we're doing something wrong a developer can tell us too.
Bugzilla is not the best place for discussiions, wine-devel is a better one IMHO. Usually the packaging bugs are detected by comparing behaviour of a pre-packaged Wine version with the one built by a user from source. It's a common practice to mark the bugs invalid if there is nothing that could be fixed in Wine to make the bug disappear, and the packaging bugs are of that category.
They are not strictly Wine bugs, but that doesn't mean they can't be tracked in bugzilla. We also track website or appdb bugs, where nothing can be fixed in Wine either. I do think it would have to be a different product in bugzilla, not just a component of the Wine product. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org
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