Re: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the
On 30-Jan-99 Johnie Ingram wrote:
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> "Shaleh" == Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:
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> 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.
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> Relatively hard, unless we could make an official (optional) dpkg
> field for the URL, and/or -- dare I imagine it? -- the Freshmeat
> appindex number....
>
Depends on a) it being on freshmeat, and b) freshmeat being up and functional.
Both are questionable.
The URL is stored in the debian/copyright file. Grabbing it from the diff.gz
should not be horribly complicated. Especially with debhelper and others using
URL --> in the copyright file.
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