Bug#515998: lintian: description-contains-homepage should catch Homepage: <>
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 19:25 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> >> Lintian includes a test "description-contains-homepage", however this
> >> check is not triggered by packages that include in their description:
> >>
> >> Homepage: <http://www.example.org/>
> >> instead of
> >> Homepage: http://www.example.org/
[...]
> If the line starts with "Homepage: ", we should probably catch it with the
> stronger tag. The weaker tag catches random URLs found in the description
> that may or may not be a reference to the package homepage, but the
> "Homepage: " prefix is a giveaway. I think this was just an oversight.
A fair point, as ever.
Fixed locally; will commit once the test suite completes.
Adam
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