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Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control



Hi,

IANADD but...

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Then file a bug against *apt* packages and p.d.o to have them support
> displaying info from that field, before or after the d-d-a
> announcement.

you wrote what I thought when I read this proposal. After all it makes
sense to first add support for the field in every important app (that
includes p.d.o and apt off course) before there are bugs filed against
packages.

> So, maybe documenting the field in the Policy, first, would be the
> best to do.
> 
> Then DevRef, then lintian/linda, the d-d-a announcement.

Hm. If you say that this should be specified in DevRef  when enough
people are using it, but you prefer to documenting the field in the
Policy first, then I think this order is wrong. Probably should
lintian/linda be changed all together with the policy and then announced.

> Then, a while later, it could become time to think about making this
> field mandatory or not and send another MBF against packages that
> don't have it at all.

Wouldn't it make sense to make it mandatory from the beginning of a
policy change?

Just my 2 cents.

Best Regards,

Patrick



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