On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:52, Raphael Goulais wrote: > On Thursday 20 November 2003 20:08, Joe Drew wrote: > > > Homepage: http://www.zope.org/Members/mjablonski/Epoz > > > > I'm getting a little sick of seeing homepages in long descriptions. > > Policy clearly says "Copyright statements and other administrivia should > > not be included either (that is what the copyright file is for)." > > (Section 3.4) > > ... and the Debian Developer's Reference recommends him to do as he has done. > Here is an extract of Chapter 6 - Best Packaging Practices : > > [ ... ] > 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/
There is clearly a disconnect here, then. I believe Policy trumps the developer's reference, but that's not to say that policy can't be changed (and the same for the developer's reference). -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My weblog doesn't detail my personal life: http://me.woot.net
