Re: Homepage-field in description
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- Subject: Re: Homepage-field in description
- From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
- Date: 13 Dec 2006 10:06:16 +0200
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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
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