* Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060609 02:14]: > Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kai Hendry wrote: > > >> Many package descriptions have a Website: field already. It should just > >> be in policy too, to promote this good helpful practice. > > > For now, it is in the developper reference (and it is ' Homepage:' at > > the end of the long description): > > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-upstream-info > > And I think most everyone agrees that parsing a free-form text field for > structured data is a nasty hack. If we're going to encourage packages to > include this information, we should make it a blessed packaging field so > that parsers don't have to grovel through the long description and guess.
Agreed. That's the reason why we should really ad a new field. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
