Re: Referring to product's web site in description?
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 08:37:38AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
I'm packaging yubikey-personalization, a tool used to set the crypto
keys for Yubikeys, which are OTP hardware tokens. The tool is useless
without a token, so I'm wondering if I should put a reference into the
description for where people can read more about the tokens and possibly
purchase one. http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey/ is the link I'd
put in.
Does people think that would be too much? I'm divided on the issue --
on one hand, I don't want Debian to end up plastered with ads, on the
other hand, the tool is not useful without a token, so pointing people
to where they can get one sounds reasonable.
Ideas, suggestions, thoughts?
Sounds like the perfect job for README.Debian to me.
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Referring to product's web site in description?
Hi all, I'm packaging yubikey-personalization, a tool used to set the crypto keys for Yubikeys, which are OTP hardware tokens. The tool is useless without a token, so I'm wondering if I should put a reference into the description for where people can read more about the tokens and possibly purchase one. http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey/ is the link I'd put in. Does people think that would be too much? I'm divided on the issue -- on one hand, I don't want Debian to end up plastered with ads, on the other hand, the tool is not useful without a token, so pointing people to where they can get one sounds reasonable. Ideas, suggestions, thoughts? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Referring to product's web site in description?
Hi, On Samstag, 8. August 2009, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Does people think that would be too much? I'm divided on the issue -- on one hand, I don't want Debian to end up plastered with ads, on the other hand, the tool is not useful without a token, so pointing people to where they can get one sounds reasonable. Debian has software specific to IPods, IPaqs, S390s and Belgium national ID cards, to name a few from the top of my head, which are not useful without the hardware in question... there was also free software to access ebay or other non free services... And I dont think having 50 or so of such packages in main is turning Debian into advertizing crap ;-) That's just so out of proportion what Debian is :) Regarding the yubico URL, _maybe_ it would be a good idea to use a URL you control, so in case the site goes down... but then I guess you would remove the software too or update the URL.. regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Referring to product's web site in description?
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: I'm packaging yubikey-personalization, a tool used to set the crypto keys for Yubikeys, which are OTP hardware tokens. The tool is useless without a token, so I'm wondering if I should put a reference into the description for where people can read more about the tokens and possibly purchase one. http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey/ is the link I'd put in. Does people think that would be too much? I'm divided on the issue -- on one hand, I don't want Debian to end up plastered with ads, on the other hand, the tool is not useful without a token, so pointing people to where they can get one sounds reasonable. I think that's a job, not for the Debian package information, but for the project's home page. The package description should give enough information for the reader to understand whether they want the package on their system. The job of the ‘Homepage’ field is to point to the WWW home page *of the software work*, specifically. Is there such a page for this work? -- \ “If you can do no good, at least do no harm.” —_Slapstick_, | `\ Kurt Vonnegut | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Referring to product's web site in description?
]] Ben Finney | I think that's a job, not for the Debian package information, but for | the project's home page. The package description should give enough | information for the reader to understand whether they want the package | on their system. Noted. (As I'm divided on whether to add the information or not, I'm so far not arguing much in either direction.) | The job of the ‘Homepage’ field is to point to the WWW home page *of the | software work*, specifically. Is there such a page for this work? There's http://code.google.com/p/yubikey-personalization/, which I guess could/should have a link to the yubikey page. (It doesn't today.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Referring to product's web site in description?
Tollef Fog Heen dijo [Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 08:37:38AM +0200]: I'm packaging yubikey-personalization, a tool used to set the crypto keys for Yubikeys, which are OTP hardware tokens. The tool is useless without a token, so I'm wondering if I should put a reference into the description for where people can read more about the tokens and possibly purchase one. http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey/ is the link I'd put in. Does people think that would be too much? I'm divided on the issue -- on one hand, I don't want Debian to end up plastered with ads, on the other hand, the tool is not useful without a token, so pointing people to where they can get one sounds reasonable. Ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Umh, pointing debian/control's Homepage: field to the Yubikeys homepage and stating in the description that /usr/share/doc/yubikeys/README.Debian has further information, and including the full information there, would be adequate and less in-your-face IMO. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
