Behaviour for missing homepage field in prospective packages
Hi,
I'm currently rewriting the code which renders the web sentinel tasks
pages and stumbled upon one issue. When writing the former code I
intended to implement it this way that for a package which is not in
the Debian pool to fields are mandatory:
Homepage and Pkg-Description
When comparing the rendering result of the old and the new code I
realised that the old code did not matched my specification because even
if the (prospective) package nest is lacking a Homepage field it is
rendered at
http://blends.debian.net/science/tasks/neuroscience-modeling#nest
The new code will just cause an intry in the logs:
ERROR - blendstasktools.py (1495): Package nest neither in pool nor new and has no homepage information - ignored
and no paragraph for nest will be rendered because the field is missing
(see below for a snipped from the relevan tasks file). The question is
now: What behaviour would you consider reasonable? Should we enforce
specifying a homepage field or not? (This question is not only
targetting against this specific package but in general.)
Kind regards
Andreas.
Snippet from tasks/neuroscience-modeling:
; Added by blends-inject 0.0.5. [Please note here if modified manually]
Suggests: nest
Responsible: Yury V. Zaytsev <yury@shurup.com>
License: non-FOSS
Vcs-Browser: http://git.zaytsev.net/?p=nest-packaging.git;a=summary
Vcs-Git: git://git.zaytsev.net/nest-packaging.git
Pkg-URL: http://git.zaytsev.net/?p=nest-packaging.git;a=summary
Pkg-Description: A simulator for networks of spiking neurons
NEST is a simulation system for large networks of biologically realistic
point-neurons and neurons with a small number of electrical compartments.
Published-Authors: Gewaltig M-O and Diesmann M
Published-In: Scholarpedia 2(4):1430
Published-Title: NEST (Neural Simulation Tool)
Published-Year: 2007
Registration: http://www.nest-initiative.org/download/Software:Download.php
Remark: Mentioned packaging is not providing NEST itself but rather only packaging materials so you could
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