Package: www.debian.org Version: 20020118 Severity: wishlist Quite frequently, you'd like to know a little bit more about a package before you decide to go ahead and install it. (Sometimes, installing a package means that you have to install quite a number of other packages which it depends upon, which will not be automatically removed if you decide to get rid of the package you really wanted to try out. Perhaps there's a single feature you want, and having to download and install the whole package just to see if it's there at all seems like severe overkill.)
What I've wished for many, many times is a link to a package's non-Debian home page from the package page. Most programs nowadays have some sort of on-line presence, and it would seem to be a useful service to provide a link right from the package description. I do realize that this is not something that can be implemented overnight, but providing a facility for it would be a good start. Thanks, /* era */ -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: Linux there 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
