On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:40:34PM -0500, Stefhen Hovland wrote: > I dont know if this has been asked before, but one thing I notice which > is missing from .deb's is a field for a package's homepage URL. This was a nice > thing with gentoo ebuilds, in that there was a homepage field for each package, > so it was nice and easy for me to cut and paste to firefox and check out the > homepage of a package I was interested in. I know most will say just google for > the answer and you will probably find the project's homepage pretty quickly, but > this still very handy, plus I could be sure I was going to the correct project > homepage. > > Does anyone know why this is missing from Debian? I am sure about 99% of > packages out there have a homepage, and if there are any that don't I am sure > they will have a generic entry on freshmeat.net/packagename which > could be listed. > > Sure most of the packages will end up being packagename.sourceforge.net, but > this would still be helpful. > > Any thoughts? > This has been discussed on debian-devel several times. There have also been some proposals on how to change the package control file format to accomodate this. Hint: this will require some non-trivial changes. In short, once the specifics get hammered out, it will likely happen. Not sure if it will make it in time for the Etch release, but it will happen eventually. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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