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Re: [RFR] templates://ampache/{ampache.templates}



On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:58:22AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > Current recommended way to mention upstream's home page until the use
> > > of a "Homepage:" field in debian/control is widely accepted.
> > 
> > (I think someone on debian-mentors was saying it's supported in dpkg
> > now, but that would just mean it's time to start using both...)
> 
> Hmmm, I should trigger that discussion in -devel so that we can have a
> stance here.
> 
> I don't really like recommending to put the upstream home page in two
> places, so we'd better be sure that we can recommend to use
> "Homepage:" or not.
> 
> Sure, dpkg supports it but what about other tools. Does using it
> increase the risk of breaking something else?

Some buildds don't use a recent version of dpkg so that binary packages
miss the Homepage: field and need to be uploaded later again ...

Jens



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