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Re: Bug#129848: www.debian.org: "more info" URL in package descriptions



On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Vince Mulhollon wrote:

>
> On 01/21/2002 10:44:20 AM tfheen wrote:
>
> >> | On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Josip Rodin wrote:
> >> | But in my opinion it would be better to use an extra control field
> which
> >> | would cause a lintian warning if empty to enforce maintainers to do
> it.
> >>
> >> Why?  Not all packages have URLs connected to them.
>
> Source must have come from somewhere, some ftp:// or http://  or rsync://
> or gopher:// or mailto: address.

Yes.  My own fingers.  And I may not have provided an external url for the
package.  My url may be http://packages.debian.org/<package>.



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