On 12/12/2013 04:19 AM, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 17:18 +0100, Matthias Runge wrote:
>> The idea behind is:
>>
>> you have some application with an issue/error. You'll do rpm -qf
>> <filename> and will get a package name, not necessarily the source
>> package name.
>> When filing a bug against a package, you'll need to know the source
>> package name.
> 
> rpm -qi gives you the source package.
> 
> 
So, why do we hide it this way?

How is a new user or a GUI-only person able to find the right package to
file a bug against? A nasty person might even say: this is by purpose ;-)

Matthias
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