Re: URLs on debian.org/distrib/packages pages
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:49:49PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:02:05PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Simply because the description field is not the right place (see
> > other mails),
>
> The dpkg developers haven't implemented any other control field to put
> this in, so the long Description: is the decent workaround.
You don't need the dpkg developers to do it first - use XB-Upstream-URI:
or whatever in debian/control and you'll get the field of your choice.
Of course it would be best to have a consensus first on what name to
use, but it isn't blocked on dpkg.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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