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Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)



Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:10:49PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
>> Backports. Old dpkgs will ignore the Homepage field.
> 
> Ermm .. ok, but (general question) do we really want to slow-down the
> spreading of some best practice to not hinder backport-ability?  After
> all backports is not an official part of Debian. YMMV.
> 

for a backport you have to add a changelog entry anyway, fixing the
Homepage field is not that complicated, so I can't see a problem here.

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Bernd Zeimetz
<bernd@bzed.de>                         <http://bzed.de/>



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