On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Raphael Goulais wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2003 23:49, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > This is no "Copyright statements" but the means to have a link to the
> > upstream homepage on http://packages.debian.org/packagename
>
> This is a damn good reason to put the url in the long description. I'll add it
> in my packages on the next update :)
... and is exactly the reason why I add it to all my long descriptions since
developers reference mentions this. I'm asking for such a control field for
more than three years and flame wars about this topic where fought. You
might search the archive of debian-devel...
> That's a good way to provide credit to upstream.
This is just a side effect.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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