Re: Link to homepage of Package
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:00:25PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> Matt> A link to the Debian package page does not provide any new
> Matt> information. If there is no appropriate URL, it should simply
> Matt> be omitted.
>
> It does provide one bit of meta information -- it tells me
> that this is a package for which an upstream url does not exist, as
> opposed to a package which does not yet follow the new convention.
>
> What you are suggesting would make it impossible to
> differentiate between a package foir which no url exsts, and a
> package whose maintainer has just not gotten around to fixing the
> description.
If you want that information, it would be better to use a static value like
"none" than something derived like the URL of the package page. Though I
don't see what that information allows you to do except complain to the
maintainer to add the URL, and in that case, you should already know the
answer if making such a request.
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- mdz
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