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Re: Bug#220779: ITP: zope-epoz -- Cross-browser-wysiwyg-editor for Zope



On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:52, Raphael Goulais wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2003 20:08, Joe Drew wrote:
> > >  Homepage: http://www.zope.org/Members/mjablonski/Epoz
> >
> > I'm getting a little sick of seeing homepages in long descriptions.
> > Policy clearly says "Copyright statements and other administrivia should
> > not be included either (that is what the copyright file is for)."
> > (Section 3.4)
> 
> ... and the Debian Developer's Reference recommends him to do as he has done. 
> Here is an extract of Chapter 6 - Best Packaging Practices :
> 
> [ ... ]
> 6.2.4 Upstream home page
> 
> We recommend that you add the URL for the package's home page to the package 
> description in debian/control. This information should be added at the end of 
> description, using the following format: 
>       .
>        Homepage: http://some-project.some-place.org/

There is clearly a disconnect here, then. I believe Policy trumps the
developer's reference, but that's not to say that policy can't be
changed (and the same for the developer's reference).

-- 
Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> <drew@debian.org>

My weblog doesn't detail my personal life: http://me.woot.net



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