[devel-ref] author/homepage in description

[Adam DiCarlo <aph@debian.org>]

I'd like to make a "best practices" note in the developers-reference
about how to indicate the upstream author, author's email, and home
page in the package description.  I think this is would be a nice
thing.

Ideally debian/control's known fields would be extended, e.g.,

  Upstream-Maintainer: John Doe <jdoe@foo.com>
  Upstream-Homepage: http://whatever.sourceforge.net/

Is this worthy of filing as a wishlist on dpkg?  

For now, I was planning on recommending something like this:

  We recommend that you add the upstream author's name, email address,
  and the URL for the package's homepage to the package description in
  debian/control.  It should be added at the end of description, using
  the following format:

 .
  Author:   Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
  Homepage: http://docbook.sourceforge.net/

  Note the spaces prepending the line, which serves to break the lines
  correctly.  To see an example of how this displays, see
  <URL:http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/docbook-dsssl.html>.

  Note that noting the upstream author is irrelevant for Debian-only
  packages; some of these packages may have home pages, although few
  do.
  
Comments desired.

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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>