"rpm" is a universe package (and quite 'alien' on Debian/Ubuntu):
$ apt-cache policy rpm
rpm:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 4.12.0.1+dfsg1-3build3
Version table:
4.12.0.1+dfsg1-3build3 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe s390 Packages
As a universe package it's community supported,
and the Ubuntu package is synch'ed over from Debian.
Hence it need to be fixed upstream and in the Debian package first.
Just as a side-note: Please keep in mind that in Ubuntu the main package
management tools are deb-packages or snaps.
Reading that rpm is used - and not knowing the exact use case - let me think
that possibly the wrong tooling is used on Ubuntu.
Standard answer for universe packages is:
This package is part of the universe section of the Ubuntu archive. Universe
packages are maintained by the community, and the maintainers do not
necessarily work for Canonical, therefore these packages are not always
directly supported by Canonical.
The existing process to update packages in the Universe archive with patches,
is as follows:
1. Upstream: Upstream your fix to the appropriate upstream project.
2. Debian: once your patch is ack’ed and accepted upstream, you need to request
a merge of this patch to the package in Debian stable.
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting use this link to report your issue and
submit a fix.
3. Ubuntu: Once it is merged into Debian stable, request a merge of this
package with Ubuntu. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debian/Bugs will provide you an
overview on how to handle bugs that are reported to Debian and subsequently to
Ubuntu.
- The merge request lands by default in Ubuntu's current development release
(today ‘Artful’).
- If required an SRU may follow to get the changes into already released Ubuntu
versions (like ‘Xenial’ or ‘Zesty’).
Work with the respective upstream maintainers (Debian and Ubuntu) is required
during this process. For critical issues we can advise you as you go through
this process and help push the patches through by chasing the appropriate
project contributors.
[To find out if a package is a universe package use: apt policy <package-name>.]
** Also affects: ubuntu-z-systems
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Unbreak size and archive size generation of built RPMs on big-endian
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