On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:01:36PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:49:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:03:54AM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote:
>
> > > As for the extra work, it doesn't matter.
>
> > It's not nice to screw around with other people's time like that.
>
> But no one is *required* to do anything. (Yet, if ever.) This is a
> "best-practices" suggestion that only applies to packages which *have*
> a meaningful "homepage". So, we have a suggestion for what we should
> do now and what we should do if/when dpgk changes, and anyone who
> doesn't want to waste their time can wait until dpkg changes.
>
> If this were going in policy ("you [should/must] have a homepage link
> in your control file at point X if a site exists that can reasonably
> be described as a home page for the package"), then I would definitely
> object. (Would create bugs for existing packages, for one thing.)
> But this isn't for policy, this is for dev-ref.
>
> If I have any remaining reservations about this proposal, it's that
> "homepage" is not (yet) an English word, IMO.
How about a more general thing, called URL. It can then be a homepage,
ftp-site,goopher or anything similar.
Regards,
// Ola
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