Bug#339829: Lintian home page check
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I really think the effort would be better spent standardizing an
>> optional URL field in Policy so that people can start using that,
>> package build tools can be updated where necessary to handle it, and
>> package viewing and installation tools can start to look for it. In
>> the meantime, packagers can start using XBS-URL right now and the right
>> thing will happen.
> Now that dpkg has the Homepage field[1], shall I update the patch to
> warn when the homepage is in the description instead of the new field?
> Or should we wait for policy and the devref to be updated?
> 1. http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg/news/20070905T053202Z.html
We should probably wait for devref and Policy, although that's been
hampered by no one on the Policy delegation having any time at all to work
on Policy. :/
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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