On Sat, 2019-11-09 at 08:55:23 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 09:00AM -08, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I'm in favor of dropping this information from debian/copyright and > > instead writing some language saying that packages should include this > > information in Homepage in debian/control and, if there's a substantial > > non-obvious difference between the package home page and how to download > > it, put download information in debian/watch. > > For a lot of packages I've put some sort of git web view URL into the > Source: field and a descriptive homepage into the Homepage: field.
If upstream does not release tarballs, then I guess that usage of the Source: field seems appropriate, otherwise it looks a bit like a stretch? > I don't think this is a very strong reason not to drop the Source: > field, since the descriptive homepage will usually have a link to the > git web view. But I thought I'd note my experience. Just to clarify, I didn't intend to propose drop the field, just for example to make it optional when the same information is elswhere in the packaging. Thanks, Guillem
