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

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:23:57PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:14:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Hello developers,
> > 
> > Policy already mandate upstream site in copyright, and it work:
> > try
> > grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright 
> [...]
> 
>   $ grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://' /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/copyright
>   http://www.pathname.com/fhs/.
> 
> But http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. does have no mention of this package.

debian-policy copyright state that:
...
The FHS and FSSTND documents were downloaded from
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/.
...
FHS is included of the debian-policy package and truly http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ is
the site of one of the upstream author of some files in the debian-policy packages.

I have never proposed to blindly do grep '\(f\|ht\)tp://', it was to make an
estimate of the number of package with upstream URL in the copyright file.
Extraneous data do not harm, so sorry if I did not understand your point.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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