Bug#129848: www.debian.org: "more info" URL in package descriptions

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

reassign 129848 general
thanks

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:52:41PM +0200, era eriksson wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Version: 20020118
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Quite frequently, you'd like to know a little bit more about a package
> before you decide to go ahead and install it. (Sometimes, installing a
> package means that you have to install quite a number of other
> packages which it depends upon, which will not be automatically
> removed if you decide to get rid of the package you really wanted to
> try out. Perhaps there's a single feature you want, and having to
> download and install the whole package just to see if it's there at
> all seems like severe overkill.)
> 
> What I've wished for many, many times is a link to a package's
> non-Debian home page from the package page. Most programs nowadays
> have some sort of on-line presence, and it would seem to be a useful
> service to provide a link right from the package description.
> 
> I do realize that this is not something that can be implemented
> overnight, but providing a facility for it would be a good start.

Any URL in a package description will be detected and turned into an anchor
by the scripts, therefore the facility is there. You need to get maintainers
to add links to their Description: headers.

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