Re: Upstream Developers
* James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org> [011206 21:00]:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:00:41PM -0500, Scott E. Tablett wrote:
> > I sometimes use the debian web pages to locate packages of interest. To
> > find out more information on a package/application, it might be helpful
> > to have a link to the upstream developer's web pages.
>
> 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. :)
I feel debian/control would be another candidate place for this. This
would require some work to add this specification, but this information
would also be very useful shown via APT. I should review the packaging
tools and see what information is extracted during the lifecycle and
manipulation of a binary package.
Another bug I filed against dpkg (120707) but haven't followed up with
yet was to record the date of the package creation somewhere in a
package meta-data field. This may be extracted from debian/changelog.
I think both of these pieces of information would be useful in
determining if you wanted to install the package or not. I did this
just the other day, however I did `apt-get source package` and looked
through the documentation to get the homepage URL. After looking at the
web page I decided not to install it.
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-- Grant Bowman <grantbow@svpal.org>
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