On Monday 14 January 2013 15:15:03 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/... > ?
semi-related, drop that intermediate noise. http://sources.gentoo.org/${CATEGORY}/${PN}/ it'll redirect to the right place -mike
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