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Bug#452105: debian-policy: Homepage field in debian/control undocumented



On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:50:22AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> 
> > Maybe I am confused, but it seems to me that Homepage is only recognized
> > in the source section and this hunk imply otherwise.
> 
> dpkg-gencontrol looked to be fine with it in the binary section as well.
> A setting in the binary section overrides the source setting.

When I try that, I get:

dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Homepage' in input data in package's section of control info file
...
dpkg-genchanges: warning: unknown information field 'Homepage' in input data in
package's section of control info file

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

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