Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/08/msg00821.html> - dpkg > development code has now support for a proper Homepage: field in > debian/control. Given that we can start using it and should propably Finally! I think the first time *I* participated in that kind of discussion was in 2005 and people were recalling having that conversation at least twice before... > remove the homepage URLs from the description part too, the tools will > soon adapt to support that. > > It might be reasonable to not remove the Homepage from the description > yet, if you prefer, before that new dpkg is released and dpkg-gencontrol > able to extract it - but there is no reason to not put it in there yet. I guess so. Also this would provide *some* backward compatibility with etch. Does dpkg ignore an unknown field? I am thinking how will this affect backporting by directly compiling a sid source package on etch. -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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