'Twas brillig, and Jani Välimaa at 28/09/12 11:39 did gyre and gimble: >> What the hell is "bgo"? We should be more helpful and explicit than that. >> See: >> > > An abbreviation for Bugzilla.Gnome.Org, widely used by other distros > (mdv/suse/fedora/etcetc) too in their %changelogs. Just like for an > example are rhbz (redhat bugzilla) and fdo (freedesktop.org) used. > > IIRC there is a policy (maybe just a draft) where's mentioned that > when referring to external bugs the format should be "(XXXX#12345)" > where XXXX stands for some abbreviation like bgo and numbers stands > for the bug number.
Yeah we've been using abbreviations for other distro and upstream bug trackers for many years, bgo, bko, fdo, rhbz to name but a few. URLs, may change but the reference is still good. I would stick to using the abbreviations if possible as it makes the changelog entries much easier to parse). Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
