Re: Homepage field

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:03:32 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Guillem Jover wrote:
> > I don't think it makes sense to have different Homepage fields on the
> > binary stanzas, but if someone can think of a case it might be useful
> > I could change it to override the source stanza field.

> I have one.
> 
> OpenOffice.orgs homepage is www.openoffice.org. Now, since 2.3, the OOo
> build process builds an extension, which is not included in OOos
> "normal" install but distributed separately (binary-only).
> 
> It would not make sense to not ship it with the OOo which already builds
> it, so I ship it[1], but the official homepage of this is *not*
> www.openoffice.org but
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/reportdesign 
> 
> I also add the postgresql sdbc driver to the packages[2], which needs
> internal OOo stuff to build so it's built from the OOo source package.
> Its homepage: http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/postgresql/

Ok, makes sense, although seems a bit of a corner case. My only concern
was people adding the field with same value on every binary stanza, but
even then it's not a big problem, just redundant.

I'll be adding overriding support before we upload.

regards,
guillem