Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description
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On Tuesday 10 December 2002 10:57, Denis Barbier wrote:
[Initial request was to include author and/or homepage for package in the
control file and as a result in the Packages file (IIRC)]
> Please ignore my initial request, I no longer need extra fields in
> debian/control and will think of a new file in source packages.
> Thanks.
Well, from a users point of view, I would (and do) really appreciate homepage
links in the description of packages. This serves two purposes for me:
1. Have a source for additional information when I am in doubt wether this
package should be installed.
2. Having the ability to check wether the package is uptodate in relation to
the upstream package.
While I understand that there are thousands of packages (hmm, dpkg -l only
shows 1080 on my stable system, but there must be more than that) and that
adding 40 bytes of URL data to each means multiple kilobytes (possibly more
than 200kBytes) of additional data in the Packages file(s), it _does_ provide
additional value to the user. And after all, the Packages file is primarily
for the user (though this is through tools like apt/dpkg/dselect/aptitude).
Also, the packages.d.o site could convert these URLs to links when displaying
the package in question. The use of this is more obvious than in the Packages
file itself I think. Still, it is generated from the same source.
Regards,
Sven Müller
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