On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:27:45 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Therefore, I’d find it handy to have, on the header of the package’s bug > page a link "Search upstream bugtracker" that directly sends me to the > upstream bugtracker, ideally to a search request for all bugs affecting > this particular program/component.
I agree, and we had a similar discussion during Debconf in the Debian Perl Group. [0] > Implementation-wise, this is probably best implemented via a new > control header, similar to Homepage, containing the URL. But of course > I’m open for other ideas. In order not to bloat the Packages file we where thinking about a header in debian/copyright (which has, according to DEP5, already information about the Upstream-Author and Upstream-Source). But there may be other and better places to put the information. Cheers, gregor [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2009/07/msg00104.html -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x00F3CFE4, 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Cat Stevens: Bitter Blue
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