gregor herrmann wrote: > As discussed on debian-devel@l.d.o dpkg is ready for the new > Homepage: field in the source stanza of debian/control. > > dam and rmayorga and me have been discussing the idea of a "mass fix" > for all packages in the repository, i.e. removing the pseudo-field > from the Description (only a few packages) and adding the new field. > I've hacked up a small and ugly (shell) script for that purpose, and > it seems that it does it's job not too bad; the new field is > constructed from http://search.cpan.org/dist/ + module name from > Makefile.PL). > > Before I let it run over trunk: > * Are there any general objections against using the new field? Not from me. > * Could someone take a look at the script (in our repo at > scripts/qa/homepagecheck)? Any improvements/re-writes welcome! I think it won't work with Module::Build-based (AKA Build.PL) modules (unless they have a compatibility Makefile.PL). > * Is the approach for constructing the URL sane? Hard to tell without a test run. Can you do a dry run?
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