* Adeodato Simó ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060610 03:11]: > * Margarita Manterola [Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:35:54 -0300]: > > > So, in any case, I'd encourage you to patch dpkg to handle a new > > "Homepage" field, and submit the patch. Once this is being used by a > > big number of packages, you might bring this up again. > > > I'd really like to have the Homepage field in dpkg, although I doubt > > it would enter policy. > > You can start without patching dpkg: > > Package: foo > ... > XB-Homepage: http://www.foo.org > > That will make a Homepage field end in the binary control information, > and thus in the Packages file.
Actually, I think the URL information should be part of the source package part inside of debian/control. At least for packages.d.o (and similar services), the information as part of debian/control is already enough, as there could be backend databases. For displaying of binary packages, this information may need to put into the binary packages themself (or even the Packages-file). This could however be seen as second step. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
