On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:41:47 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >In practice, in my experience most packages have exactly the same > >URL (maybe with one path part more or less) in debian/control, > >debian/copyright and debian/watch. > In my experience it can be hard to actually find upstream source > based on info in debian/copyright due to too sloppy referencing! > > ...sometimes even upstream tarball releases can be hard to locate, > but mostly such trouble occur when the Debian package is not based > on upstream tarball releases but instead on a VCS snapshot and the > VCS hosting isn't prominently advertised upstream. Sure, I've also encountered these cases; that's why I said "_most_ packages" :) > So I really appreciate when care has been taken to add the relevant > subdir or whatever makes that Upstream-Source URL different from the > Homepage URL. Definitively, and I also appreciate it when someone makes it easy for me. I was just commenting on the many cases with the dupli- or triplication of the info. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
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