I'd like to make a "best practices" note in the developers-reference about how to indicate the upstream author, author's email, and home page in the package description. I think this is would be a nice thing.
Ideally debian/control's known fields would be extended, e.g., Upstream-Maintainer: John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Upstream-Homepage: http://whatever.sourceforge.net/ Is this worthy of filing as a wishlist on dpkg? For now, I was planning on recommending something like this: We recommend that you add the upstream author's name, email address, and the URL for the package's homepage to the package description in debian/control. It should be added at the end of description, using the following format: . Author: Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Homepage: http://docbook.sourceforge.net/ Note the spaces prepending the line, which serves to break the lines correctly. To see an example of how this displays, see <URL:http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/docbook-dsssl.html>. Note that noting the upstream author is irrelevant for Debian-only packages; some of these packages may have home pages, although few do. Comments desired. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
