Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kai Hendry wrote: >> Many package descriptions have a Website: field already. It should just >> be in policy too, to promote this good helpful practice.
> For now, it is in the developper reference (and it is ' Homepage:' at > the end of the long description): > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-upstream-info And I think most everyone agrees that parsing a free-form text field for structured data is a nasty hack. If we're going to encourage packages to include this information, we should make it a blessed packaging field so that parsers don't have to grovel through the long description and guess. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
