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Re: questions regarding libmimelib1 as seperate source package



In <87bpqlqj6w.fsf@turtle.gmx.de>, Sven Joachim wrote:
>On 2009-04-25 09:26 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> In <20090425001917.GB6090@resivo.wgnet.de>, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>>>On 24/04/2009 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>>> Packages should be non-native unless they are fairly Debian-specific.
>>>
>>>Ok, I see your point. I'll change the package to be non-native again.
>>>But how about all the links to upstream places that lintian expects?
>>>like the Homepage field in debian/control, the watch file etc ...
>>
>> *shrug*
>>
>> They could point to specific part of the Debian infrastructure used for
>> maintaining the project.  Perhaps a project "etc." on
>> http://alioth.debian.org/?
>
>I think that's only useful if the library itself is maintained there.

Yes, that is what I was suggesting, if Debian is going to become "upstream" 
for this package.

Either that or some other "place" for the package that has an useful URL.  (In 
particular, I was thinking of something to satisfy the Homepage field 
mentioned.)
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