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Re: more project URLs?



On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:32:05AM -0800, Scott Johnston wrote:
> I'm an upstream developer of a Debian package where the package
> web page at debian.org has a link to the web page I maintain for the
> software. But this seems the exception rather than the norm.
> 
>  Why don't all the package web pages have links to the upstream
> author's web pages if they exist?

The reason is probably that there is no infrastructure in place
to get an URL to appear on the packages page.

Ivtools does manage, however, to get an URL there and the trick
seems to be to put an URL in the description of the package :-).

Peter van Rossum



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