On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 09:02 +0100, Matthias Runge wrote: > 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
Well, you were talking about someone who had just used rpm -qf, so in that context rpm -qi made a lot of sense. > able to find the right package to > file a bug against? A nasty person might even say: this is by purpose ;-) As far as I know, pkgdb is not targeted at end users but at package maintainers (as it handles the ACLs on packages). /packages is more targeted at users, and it does show what is the base package for a given subpackage. For example: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/libcangjie-devel In case you miss the "Subpackage of XXX", you can just click on the "Bugzilla" link, which will open a bug against the proper base package. You could argue that the two apps should be only one, but that's a different discussion. (and the people actually doing the work to implement and maintain those apps feel that it's better to separate them) -- Mathieu -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
