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Bug#185364: debian-policy: project url's should be required for each apt-cache package description



Anyway, here's a typical case.
$ apt-cache show flightgear
...
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
 Flight Gear is a free and highly sophisticated flight simulator.
 .
 This package contains the runtime binaries.

OK, 40 MB download and install later we learn via some readmes that
one should go to the web site to learn how to use it etc.

Good thing I had it on a CD or else my modem would have xxxx....

I would first like to get more than those two lines of description
before committing to a 40 Mb download.

Let's say I was commercial software. would I want to throw the user to
the winds of a google search to find my website?  Sounds flakey to
me...

$ apt-cache show emacs
oops, sorry
$ apt-cache show emacs21
Description: The GNU Emacs editor.
 GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.

well, excuse me. Why of course. That's nice. 

anyway, all this is meant for the In-club members, not newbies.
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