On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:23:52AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mer 13/11/2002 à 10:58, David Goodenough a écrit :
> > I notice that ITPs carry URLs, and this is very useful in understanding
> > what it to be packaged. However the packages pages do not carry URLs
> > to help potential users of existing packages. Would it be possible to
> > add them?
>
> It is possible, as the package pages handle URLs. Some maintainers put
> the upstream URLs in their packages' descriptions, but the policy
> doesn't mandate them.
Policy does mandate them, but in the copyright file, not the package
description.
13.6 Copyright information
[...]
In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream
sources (if any) were obtained, and should explain briefly what
modifications were made in the Debian version of the package
compared to the upstream one.
[...]
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