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Re: WWW Pages of debians packages (fwd)



"Darren O. Benham" <gecko@debian.org> writes:

 >8 snip 8<

> The package pages are generated by a script.  There is, currently, no
> guaranteed or even promising or consistant (or any other word) way to
> extract that information.
> 
> That information would need to be put in some easily extractable format.
> Before anyone suggests the copyright file, that would work BUT the entries
> are freeform and sometimes missing altogether.  There's no guarantee that
> the output would have any meaning or that there would be an output.

An Author: field in the control file ?

Phil.


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