On 30-Jan-99 Johnie Ingram wrote: > > "Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Shaleh> how hard would it be to have the Packages pages on the Debian > Shaleh> web site show the packages home URL, i.e. where the author is? > Shaleh> A few times I have been hunting for this because I needed a > Shaleh> bsd or Sun version of a program. Downloading the orig.tar.gz > Shaleh> and looking inside can be cumbersome. > > Relatively hard, unless we could make an official (optional) dpkg > field for the URL, and/or -- dare I imagine it? -- the Freshmeat > appindex number.... >
Depends on a) it being on freshmeat, and b) freshmeat being up and functional. Both are questionable. The URL is stored in the debian/copyright file. Grabbing it from the diff.gz should not be horribly complicated. Especially with debhelper and others using URL --> in the copyright file.