Re: Homepage in debian/control (was: RFS: queuegraph (take two))
On Friday 01 September 2006 15:31, Sam Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:23:20 +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> > On 31/08/06, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> >> also sprach Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com> [2006.08.31.1639 +0200]:
> >> > Please no, as tools will start to use X-Homepage, you will have to
> >> > keep compatibility for long time. And if tools won't use it, it
> >> > makes no use to include it in debian/control. I always wondered
> >> > why there is no proper support for Homepage:...
> >>
> >> Those are the laws of adoption, yes. I don't think compatibility is
> >> so hard to achieve here, but you are right: we must not act
> >> prematurely.
> >>
> >> Anyway, the reason why there's no proper support is, of course,
> >> because noone has provided patches yet...
> >
> > And pathces are not there because there is a herd of people who oppose
> > violently to adding a Homepage: field to the control file. The main
> > arguments (which are stupid IMHO) are that:
> >
> > [...]
>
> A more practical reason not to do it is that the homepage may move,
> leaving us publishing outdated information for the rest of the stable
> release.
Same holds true for the URLs stored in the copyright file (downloaded
from...), in the watch file, and in the rules file (if you have the optional
get-orig-source target). Thus these basically sit exactly on the same line.
OTOH having to remember so many files to update/fix site locations is no fun
at all.
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