Re: Homepage-field in description

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> Margarita Manterola <margamanterola@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > When the URL is something like http://www.myniceproject.org, I don't see
> > that would be the difference in having the extra space or not.
> 
> Well, it matters to people with 20-character-wide windows, if there are
> any such people (there could potentially be with GUI package managers,
> although it's unlikely).  It's admittedly an edge case, but wrapping the
> URL is also incorrect, so I agree with the devref suggestion to mark it as
> not wrappable.
> 
> > And the extra space doesn't look nice in the description, nor does it
> > look nice in the http://packages.debian.org page, and I doubt it looks
> > nice in synaptic either.  Therefore, I prefer not to add an extra space,
> > because I prefer my URLs to look just as the rest of the text.
> 
> Thus proving that the real solution is to get rid of the Homepage bit
> completely and instead add a real field to dpkg, since people won't even
> agree on and follow the syntax for the hack of putting it in the long
> description so that people can parse it properly.  *sigh*

Does the Lintian issua an information message of any kinf for the
Homepage: field? If it would, the maintainers could possibly pay more
attention. Not many are aware of the spcae or "two space" reason for
long URLs.

Jari