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Re: URLs on debian.org/distrib/packages pages



>>"Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:


 Matt> There are any number of ways to do this which are both trivial
 Matt> to implement and trivial to parse and extract.  However, unless
 Matt> one of these methods is consistently recommended to all
 Matt> developers (and eventually required), then it will not be used
 Matt> frequently enough to be useful.

	Once we decide on a format, and we begin to implement some of
 the extraction tools, and get a test set of packages working, we can
 put this as a recommendation into policy. The test with a handful of
 packages shall allow us to finalize the solution before encoding it
 into policy and have all packages change.

	manoj
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