-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, There should be a link/url of a package's homepage if there is one. There are times when the users are not sure due to similar named apps, or due to the maintainers/packagers changing name of the package. I'm going to use 2 e.g.'s to show this, netspeed and glade-gnome-3 . While I'm pretty sure that https://beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netspeed/ is the same netspeed as given at http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/netspeed/ there is no way to know for sure. I looked at the changelog "aptitude changelog netspeed" which tells me its 0.13 but nothing on the overview page tells me whether its the same one. There is no description on the overview page nor is there the link to the package home page. Now as a user if I'm using/testing both netspeed as well as network monitor and no idea what network-monitor is called. I also did an apt-cache search network-monitor tcpspy - Incoming and Outgoing TCP/IP connections logger
which brings another package altogether. So until a crash & apport reports the crash I won't come to know if netspeed is the right one or not. The second e.g. is of glade-gnome-3 . Now while the package is there, there is no page for it. I searched for it https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glade-3/+bug/112479 . Now this confuses users, either glade-3 be one package having also the gnome stuff or if there is glade-gnome-3 then it should have its own page. I was actually on the glade-3 channel for over an hr. + asking him why such a beautiful done package is not there in the repos. The idea again, while its not just fixing these two packages or making some sort of resolution on them, but the more larger picture of having some kind of policy. Perhaps have an Option so people can add a hyperlink if there is some page. It doesn't even have to be an outside link could be with the http://help.ubuntu.com so people can move back & forth. As always thoughts, suggestions, additions, refinements & brickbats to the point raised above are welcome. -- Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFGQMo8lQ1T+3KaixcRAnZhAJ9zC55WeG06NLiarAcQF9R/uk3CXgCgjBug gzbvahgjMTkF+mGGkexNeWg= =q8uC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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