Bug#444336: lintian: promote the use of the Homepage field

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist

Hello.

Since now dpkg recognizes and supports a Homepage field (introduced in
1.14.6), I think it'd be very good if lintian:
  
  * would not yield unknown-field-in-control when it's present (note
    that it's an I:, not a W:, but still)

  * detects usage of the pseudo-field Homepage in the description (as in
    /^ +Homepage:/i, eg.), and recommends that a proper Homepage field
    in the first stanza of debian/control is used instead. This would be
    particularly useful to get the "when to update devref and policy"
    ball moving (the first move having been dpkg implementing it, of
    course :).

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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