Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-20 Thread Paul Wise
On 8/20/07, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree that the homepage of a software might change but I really think > that the homepage changes much less frequently as the version of the > package which makes the change of the homepage a managable issue in > normal package maintainance

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Paul Wise wrote: I suggest that the homepage does not belong inside the package at all (because it can change separately to the package) I agree that the homepage of a software might change but I really think that the homepage changes much less frequently as the version of

Re: Homepage field (was: Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick)

2007-08-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:17:03AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > Ok, just pushed the Homepage field support into dpkg git. Chose Homepage > as that was what was requested on 142324 and what has mostly been used > on the pseudo-header in the Description field. Wow!, that was fast, thanks!! Can you

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:50:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > There was some debate whether to use XBS-Homepage or XBS-Url. RPM uses > URL: as the header. Other than that, I think most everyone considers it a > good idea. Agreed, except for the fact the XBS-Url is not meaningful as XBS-Homepag

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2007-08-20 kello 09:53 +1000, Paul Wise kirjoitti: > I suggest that the homepage does not belong inside the package at all > (because it can change separately to the package) and would be better > off being maintained on packages.debian.org and merged into the > Packages files similar to how de

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Paul Wise
On 8/20/07, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So there's no technical obstacles in implementing this? Or rather, no > reason for packages to not start using it now? Does packages.debian.org show headers that it doesn't know about? It seems that it doesn't: http://packages.debian.org/u

Homepage field (was: Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick)

2007-08-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 10:50:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > su, 2007-08-19 kello 18:27 +0200, Christoph Berg kirjoitti: > >> Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea. > > > Does someone have a handy summary of where things stand with mo

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > su, 2007-08-19 kello 10:50 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti: >> There was some debate whether to use XBS-Homepage or XBS-Url. RPM uses >> URL: as the header. Other than that, I think most everyone considers >> it a good idea. > So there's no technical o

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2007-08-19 kello 10:50 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > su, 2007-08-19 kello 18:27 +0200, Christoph Berg kirjoitti: > > >> Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea. > > > Does someone have a handy summary of where things stand with movin

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > su, 2007-08-19 kello 18:27 +0200, Christoph Berg kirjoitti: >> Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea. > Does someone have a handy summary of where things stand with moving > homepage urls out from Description and into their own header? The

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 06:27:28PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea. Uhm, no, please push XSB-Homepage (or XBS-Homepage, I don't know if both are the same or not, hints on this are welcome). If only on the binary package the PTS would have hard time

Re: Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2007-08-19 kello 18:27 +0200, Christoph Berg kirjoitti: > Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea. Does someone have a handy summary of where things stand with moving homepage urls out from Description and into their own header? -- You need fewer comments, if you choose your names

Bug#438712: minimalist: The package description should use the pseudo-standard " Homepage:" trick

2007-08-19 Thread Christoph Berg
tags 438712 + wontfix thanks Hi Christian, Cc'ing -devel since I don't think there is a consensus about this issue. Re: Christian Perrier 2007-08-19 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This package's description mentions the upstream project web page. I suggest > it uses the de facto standard of mentioning it