On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:38:28PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:00:47 -0500 "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We'd love to make that info available. Unfortunately, no one has managed > > to push through a standard way of providing that information in packages. > > Until that is done, it won't be done - unless you want to volunteer to > > try to manually create an maintain such a list for all > 8600 packages. :) > why not debian/copyright? I think an URL to the official webpage is much > more useful than the ftp site from wich you can download the tar.gz... > The same applies: if people want information about upstream to appear on the package web pages then that information needs to be made available in a known place in a canonical form so it can be easily parsed.
Before anyone points out that the location for the source should already appear in the copyright file, please take a look at a number of copyright files and you'll quickly realize that you would need an AI in order to grab the correct information (when it is even available). -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
