Dan Jacobson wrote: > 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. This description sucks. Adding an url to it will *not* fix it. If the description talked about what kinds of features there were, what sorts of planes you could fly, what scenarios, airports, courses, or whatever there were, what kind of graphics card you needed, etc, etc, you should not need the upstream url to decide if you wanted to install it, unless perhaps you needed a screenshot to decide (seems unlikely for something like a flight simulator, a static picture of sky and instruments cannot capture the program). The thing I really worry about with promoting urls in descriptions is that they will come to substitute for good descriptions. Which will make it far harder to find a package, even if you happen to have a net connection at the time. This is why I can back proposals for fields that link directly to a screenshot, and why I feel very iffy about general urls. -- see shy jo
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