-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 14/01/13 03:15 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 14-01-2013 a las 18:15 +0100, hasufell escribió: [...] >>>> +1 to allow empty/missing HOMEPAGE variable >>>> >>>> dead homepage => useless http://gentoo.org => useless >>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org => too obvious >>>> >>> >>> An empty homepage usually means the package is dead. I'd rather >>> see the cvs/git/svn url being used as HOMEPAGE in case your >>> tiny little script has no proj page at all. >>> >> >> No, an empty homepage just means upstream is dead. There are >> numerous examples of years old packages still working fine >> without a single update. >> >> > > Other option is to use "gentoo.org" as HOMEPAGE for that packages > (as some of them are already doing). But, since people think it's > useless, why not use as HOMEPAGE > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/... ?
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