Hello! On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:31:31 +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:05:04 +0200 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> As a consequence, it seems logical to promote the use of that field >> and recommend abandoning "Homepage" paragraphs in packages' >> description. > > Well I started to use this field in some my packages, but I see few > problems: > > 1. Policy does not cover this field, you will also get "I: > unknown-field-in-control homepage" from lintian.
This is a minor warning. > 2. packages.debian.org/aptitude/other tools does not support this > field. This means that moving Homepage from description to separate > field for now means that no user will be able to see it. This is strange: the Homepage field is shown for some packages [1] and not for others [2], e.g. reported below: ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show ikiwiki | grep "^Homepage" Homepage: http://ikiwiki.info/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show deb-gview | grep "^Homepage" Homepage: http://dpkg-view.alioth.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ===== FWIW, the number of source packages implementing the Homepage: field is still very very low: ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wget http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/source/Sources.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zgrep -c "^Package" Sources.gz 11659 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zgrep -c "^Homepage" Sources.gz 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ===== /me goes to move the homepage from Description: to Homepage: for his packages... Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/ikiwiki [2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/deb-gview -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
