Re: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the program
"Shaleh" == Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:
Shaleh> how hard would it be to have the Packages pages on the Debian
Shaleh> web site show the packages home URL, i.e. where the author is?
Shaleh> A few times I have been hunting for this because I needed a
Shaleh> bsd or Sun version of a program. Downloading the orig.tar.gz
Shaleh> and looking inside can be cumbersome.
Relatively hard, unless we could make an official (optional) dpkg
field for the URL, and/or -- dare I imagine it? -- the Freshmeat
appindex number....
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