Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I do not really care about the _content_ of a homepage of the > project. I care about the _existence_. The fact that there is _no_ > homepage or there _was_ a homepage and is not _anymore_ is IMHO an > important piece of information that I want t

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Well, a third and fourth alternative would be to download the documentation from archive.org, and (assuming you have the right for distribution) but them in a -doc package or put it on people.debian.o

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Feb 17, 2008 4:59 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm maintaining the package fastdnaml and wanted to move the Homepage > information I putted into the long description formerly to the Homepage > tag of the control file. When doing so I verified that the home page is > correct b

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Well, a third and fourth alternative would be to download the > documentation from archive.org, and (assuming you have the right for > distribution) but them in a -doc package or put it on > people.debian.org - in that case your might want to

Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080218 14:40]: > Ahhh, just learned something new. ;-) > I just tried it for the special case fastdnaml where I have to > cope with the vanished homepage and noticed it in the copyright > file. But I'm not fully convinced that this is a good general > sol

Re: RFS: QA Uploade -- tkgate 1.8.7-1 - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Barry deFreese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080218 15:17]: [ license.tcl ] >> Oh, you remove it in debian/rules? Any reason for that? > Gah, that's new. I ripped it out because lintian was complaining that > it was an extra license file. Ah, makes sense to remove it then, but a lintian overrid

Re: RFS: QA Uploade -- tkgate 1.8.7-1 - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk

2008-02-18 Thread Barry deFreese
Alexander Schmehl wrote: Hi! * Barry deFreese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080218 02:44]: It includes a new upstream (fixes an RC bug) Would have been nice to mention which bug ;) Sorry, will do, next time. and some significant re-packaging. It is also complaining about a large /u

Re: Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote: No, I meant archive.org (not .com as I wrote previously, sorry). They archive web pages like a library (see for example http://web.archive.org/web/19970502070835/http://www.debian.org/), and maybe the have the documentation pages of your software ar

Re: [RKI-Spam-Verdacht]Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080218 07:59]: >> If there was usefull content on it (e.g. documentation) you could >> try to link to the specific page of archive.com; not the best solution, >> but better than nothing I would say. > You mean linking to http://packages.debian.org/sid/ if

Re: RFS: QA Uploade -- tkgate 1.8.7-1 - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk

2008-02-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Barry deFreese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080218 02:44]: > It includes a new upstream (fixes an RC bug) Would have been nice to mention which bug ;) > and some significant re-packaging. It is also complaining about a > large /usr/share, so I'm wondering if it should be split into a -data >