On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 05:09:31PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > 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). This is no "Copyright statements" but the means to have a link to the upstream homepage on http://packages.debian.org/packagename cu andreas
