Bug#185364: marked as done (debian-policy: project url's should be required for each apt-cache package description)
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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
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Subject: debian-policy: project url's should be required for each apt-cache
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Package: debian-policy
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Consider a user thumbing thru aptitude or apt-cache show.
He sees a brief description of a package that sounds good.
But he wants to know a little more before committing to a multi
megabyte download and install.
Therefore those packages without project url's in their package info
should either add them or say they really have none.
True, the user could do a google search, but...
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To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
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Subject: Re: Bug#185364: debian-policy: project url's should be required for
each apt-cache package description
From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
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Hi,
I don't think this is really a policy issue -- it may be a
developers reference good practices issue, so perhaps you can ask
the maintainers of that package?
manoj
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