Hello, On Sat 16 Nov 2019 at 04:13AM +01, Guillem Jover wrote:
> 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? Well, if the tarballs are an afterthought for upstream (perhaps automatically generated by git-archive(1) on GitHub's releases page) then I think it's appropriate. -- Sean Whitton
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