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Re: more project URLs?



On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:32:05AM -0800, Scott Johnston wrote:
> I'm an upstream developer of a Debian package where the package
> web page at debian.org has a link to the web page I maintain for the
> software. But this seems the exception rather than the norm.
> 
>  Why don't all the package web pages have links to the upstream
> author's web pages if they exist?  This would make these pages hosted
> on debian.org a far greater resource for understanding what
> you can do with the distribution.
> 
Talk to the maintainers of the package. It is easy for them to include
it in the package description, if they wish.

Of course, it would be better if the packaging system had a unique,
easily parsed location for this information. The web team could then use
this to put this information on the package page automatically.

-- 
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org



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