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Bug#452105: debian-policy: Homepage field in debian/control undocumented



Hi,

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 12:37:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> > When I try that, I get:
> >
> > dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Homepage' in input data in package's section of control info file
> > ...
> > dpkg-genchanges: warning: unknown information field 'Homepage' in input data in
> > package's section of control info file
> 
> Huh.  Okay, fixed in my version to only list it for the source stanza (and
> the binary and source control files).

Those are harmless warnings, those two programs were just failing to
recognize and ignore the field. But this does not affect the
functionallity.

I've fixed the bogus warnings now in dpkg's git commit 2006f64.

regards,
guillem



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