Re: RFC: upstream-link in the BTS and package descriptions
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> At 11:33 pm, Sunday, October 21 2001, Ulrich Eckhardt mumbled:
> > Hi Folks!
> > I have an idea that would sometimes make my life easier: if the BTS-pages=
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> > (bugs.debian.org) or maybe the package itself (so that it is displayed by=
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> > apt-cache) had a link to the homepage of each library/program so that one=
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> > would not have to install the package to find where upstream is.=20
> > This would somehow be an addition to the package-description provided by =
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> > .debs and help to get further information on a package.
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> Well, if the .deb is installed, it's available in
> /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright. I really don't see any need to have this
> information duplicated in the .deb. The down side is the damn thing has to
> be installed to get to it.
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It can be read without installing, although you would still have to
download it:
dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile /var/cache/apt/archives/less_358-10_i386.deb
|tar -xOf - ./usr/share/doc/less/copyright| zless
But I agree this is not convenient either.
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> Steve
> <StevenK> Nah, I'm allergic to python.
> <StevenK> It makes me swear and break stuff.
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