On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:54:48PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Yes. Thanks.
> It is, but current usage puts it in the description for binary packages. > One may argue that it may be because there is no description in the > source package, but I believe it's also more useful there: I don't, I'll try to explain ... > It's my impression that is mostly useful for users, that may visit it to > get more documentation, or whatever. <snip> > Deficiency how? show shows binary records, showsrc shows source records. > What would you correct in that? I agree that the most common use is for users that wants to browse to a software homepage. But data should be primarily represented (warning: mantra begins here) where they belong to. And if the Homepage information belong, as I hope we all agree upon, to a source package then there it should be represented. For the sake of usefulness than an information can be derived elsewhere where useful. The PTS web interface is an example of this: binary package pages on the web can have link to the PTS which collect together a lot of information and make them accessible to the user. If the user currently use "apt-cache show" for getting information about a package fine, if the homepage field should be shown there fine as well, but then its apt-cache show which should inherit the information (if possible) from the source record. Don't we already have examples of such inheritance? Aren't sections inherited from the source package and possibly overridden there? It is not the case that we should put an information where it is not appropriate only because the current user practice is to look there for the info. After all we are all looking for the proper place where to put this information and the Description is apparently agreed upon for not being such a place. For the reasoning above I'm convinced the Homepage information belong to the source record. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time
