On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:54:04PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > (Besides, that calculation assumes things like all developers doing it and > > all packages having it.) > > That's probably a reasonable assumption. > > As soon as such a field exists, some enterprising young person will > generate wishlist bug reports against every package in the archive that > doesn't have them, and since it's a reasonable request, probably the > next upload will have a field. Even packages that don't have a useful > homepage will have to put something like "Homepage: N/A" to prevent > repeated stupid bugreports.
Those things can only happen if we phrase policy very, _very_ badly. I don't believe anyone will do that -- did you notice any bug reports e.g. about lacking Build-Depends on packages that don't have them? I didn't, and I have at least one such package. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.