* James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011206 21:00]: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:00:41PM -0500, Scott E. Tablett wrote: > > I sometimes use the debian web pages to locate packages of interest. To > > find out more information on a package/application, it might be helpful > > to have a link to the upstream developer's web pages. > > 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. :)
I feel debian/control would be another candidate place for this. This would require some work to add this specification, but this information would also be very useful shown via APT. I should review the packaging tools and see what information is extracted during the lifecycle and manipulation of a binary package. Another bug I filed against dpkg (120707) but haven't followed up with yet was to record the date of the package creation somewhere in a package meta-data field. This may be extracted from debian/changelog. I think both of these pieces of information would be useful in determining if you wanted to install the package or not. I did this just the other day, however I did `apt-get source package` and looked through the documentation to get the homepage URL. After looking at the web page I decided not to install it. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
