control: reopen 1081709
severity 1081709 wishlist
Source: libfile-extattr-perl
Followup-For: Bug #1081709


>that's not correct. there is a homepage field, but it happens to
>be on the binary package not the source.
>
>(policy doesn't say where that field has to go, it lists them
>for both source and binary with no further info.)
>
>apt-cache show certainly picks that up and shows it, so i'm not
>going to upload a new version just to move the homepage field around.

Could be more clear that was meant source field.

I conclude that binary homepage is to override source homepage.

lintian.
https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/homepage-in-binary-package
manpage
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/dpkg-dev/deb-src-control.5.en.html#BINARY_FIELDS

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