Bug#339829: Lintian home page check

[Russ Allbery]

Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I really think the effort would be better spent standardizing an
>> optional URL field in Policy so that people can start using that,
>> package build tools can be updated where necessary to handle it, and
>> package viewing and installation tools can start to look for it.  In
>> the meantime, packagers can start using XBS-URL right now and the right
>> thing will happen.

> Now that dpkg has the Homepage field[1], shall I update the patch to
> warn when the homepage is in the description instead of the new field?
> Or should we wait for policy and the devref to be updated?

>  1. http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg/news/20070905T053202Z.html

We should probably wait for devref and Policy, although that's been
hampered by no one on the Policy delegation having any time at all to work
on Policy.  :/

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Bug#339829: Lintian home page check

[Paul Wise]

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

> I really think the effort would be better spent standardizing an optional
> URL field in Policy so that people can start using that, package build
> tools can be updated where necessary to handle it, and package viewing and
> installation tools can start to look for it.  In the meantime, packagers
> can start using XBS-URL right now and the right thing will happen.

Now that dpkg has the Homepage field[1], shall I update the patch to
warn when the homepage is in the description instead of the new field?
Or should we wait for policy and the devref to be updated? 

 1. http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg/news/20070905T053202Z.html

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