Re: Upstream Developers
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:38:28PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:00:47 -0500 "James A. Treacy" <treacy@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > We'd love to make that info available. Unfortunately, no one has managed
> > to push through a standard way of providing that information in packages.
> > Until that is done, it won't be done - unless you want to volunteer to
> > try to manually create an maintain such a list for all > 8600 packages. :)
> why not debian/copyright? I think an URL to the official webpage is much
> more useful than the ftp site from wich you can download the tar.gz...
>
The same applies: if people want information about upstream to appear on
the package web pages then that information needs to be made available
in a known place in a canonical form so it can be easily parsed.
Before anyone points out that the location for the source should already
appear in the copyright file, please take a look at a number of
copyright files and you'll quickly realize that you would need an AI in
order to grab the correct information (when it is even available).
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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