Es geschah am Mittwoch 01 Juni 2005 01:33 als Bill Allombert schrieb: > 1) Debian Policy mandate the information in the copyright file already: > > 12.5. Copyright information > --------------------------- > ... > > In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources > (if any) were obtained. It should name the original authors of the > package and the Debian maintainer(s) who were involved with its > creation.
Not sufficient IMO. Again; you need to download and/or install the package to get that information. > 2) Developers-reference propose the following: > > > 6.2.4. Upstream home page > ------------------------- > > We recommend that you add the URL for the package's home page to the > package description in `debian/control'. This information should be > added at the end of description, using the following format: > > . > Homepage: http://some-project.some-place.org/ The 'good' thing about recommendations is that they can be ignored so easily and in this case this specific recommendation is ignored by the majority of all Debian packages! > 3) Information about upstream website tend to get outdated, so stable > packages are likely to include outdated informations. Right, upstream websites get outdated and so do packages. Better a pointer to an old webpage than none at all. This is not an argument for me at all! > The Developers-reference proposal allow a stable user to go to > package.debian.org to read the description of the unstable version of > the package and get a more up-to-date information. ... where he could also read a "Upstream-Source: " field generated information... > 4) Some upstream authors do not want their email address to be exposed. > To their defense, someone buying the getithere.org domain might be > surprised to receive spams addressed to the foocrew user. Upstream-Source: neglected or Upstream-Source: undesired or even Upstream-Author: restricted or whatever. All those contra arguments depend on a clear minority of packages and as you can see can still live with my proposal. That missing upstream information is really annoying! I hope you guys change your mind! CU Christian P.S. Please CC me, I'm offlist ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
