Bug#339829: Lintian home page check
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:34:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> > 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?
> The next version of lintian will not warn about Homepage headers in
> packages and will warn (at the info level for right now) about Homepage
> pseudo-headers in the extended description.
>
> I'm still not sure that the original patch in this bug report (trying to
> guess at whether a random URL found in the extended description should be
> a homepage) is really a good idea.
I personally would vote for closing this bug.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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