Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) writes:

> Putting it in a README file won't help, it can't be automatically
> extracted.  The problem is that debian/control is the only file with
> a parsable format, maybe such infos could be added to another file,
> say debian/infos, in a standardized manner.

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Well we already have the links in the copyright files now, so if
> they're going to be wrong half the time that must already be a
> problem.


I think the link in the copyright file to the upstream sources should
be in a standardized, parsable format.  Likewise the author name.
That way lintian could check for them.  The last time I checked, 5 or
10 percent of our packages lacked any link to the upstream sources.

Then, it would make sense to add a link to the project home page in
the same place.  That would not impact the Packages files.

	 - Jim Van Zandt