Re: Add Web page to package
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:36:53PM -0800, John Stevenson wrote:
> Could we add a home/reference web page to each package?
> It would naturally scale with the system.
We already do. See /usr/doc/<package>/copyright.
It is also possible to put an URL in the package description, but many
packages don't *have* "home pages", and some authors would prefer that
we not post their addresses on the web. (Not to mention the packages
whose home pages and/or authors seem to have vanished off the face of
the earth -- I've got a couple of those.)
And at least one of my packages has a home page that describes:
a) how to install the RPM
b) how to build from source
Neither of which are going to be of much interest to the average
debian user. (I still list the page in the copyright file, though.)
cheers
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