On Sun, January 16, 2011 10:39, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:38:51AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit :
>> I'm not enthousiastic yet either, because the proposal lacks the >> information about what cost is associated with the current sitiuation. >> Really, it's just a few keystrokes when first creating the package and >> hardly needs to be changed afterward. I have never found this to be a >> burden in any way, and the information in the Homepage field may indeed >> be >> not as complete. >> >> What problem is this trying to solve? > > In a recent discussion about DEP-5, it was noted that often the Homepage > field > is redundant with the information in debian/copyright: > > http://lists.debian.org/20110113213843.gb11...@gnu.kitenet.net > > The goal of the patch that I attached here is to give the possiblity for > the maintainers to factorise information if they wish. I'm afraid I do not understand what you mean with that they can "factorise information". I only know factorising as a mathematical operation. What will they do exactly? But more importantly, and pertaining to my original question: what problem would that solve that we have now? > Note that the purpose of the Homepage field, perhaps unfortunately more > in the Policy than in the practice, is already to lead to the upstream > sources: Current practice is probably formed that way because people expect those websites to be listed there, not specifically download locations. Cheers, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/fdc2d5013f897a199c3cc6b3e33bad43.squir...@wm.kinkhorst.nl
