Re: Link to homepage of Package

[Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

>  Matt> A link to the Debian package page does not provide any new
>  Matt> information.  If there is no appropriate URL, it should simply
>  Matt> be omitted.
> 	It does provide one bit of meta information -- it tells me
>  that this is a package for which an upstream url does not exist, as
>  opposed to a package which does not yet follow the new convention. 
> 
> 	What you are suggesting would make it impossible to
>  differentiate between a package foir which no url exsts, and a
>  package whose maintainer has just not gotten around to fixing the
>  description. 

	I've always wanted to say

Build-Depends:

	to mean that yes, I've looked at the issue and no, there are
        no build-deps.

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