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Bug#615364: marked as done (libswidgets-java: please use Homepage field to point to upstream homepage)

Your message dated Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:09:38 +0000
with message-id <[🔎] E1UAd18-0006WY-An@franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#701750: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #615364,
regarding libswidgets-java: please use Homepage field to point to upstream homepage
to be marked as done.

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Package: libswidgets-java
Severity: minor
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: homepage-field

[ This is an automated bug report, part of the mass bug filing discussed
  at <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/02/msg00367.html>. The
  submitter is Stefano Zacchiroli, reachable at <zack@debian.org>. ]

According to lintian, libswidgets-java uses its long description
to point to upstream homepage, following an old Developer's Reference
recommendation. That practice has various drawbacks, including the
inability to automatically process homepage information from
package-related services such as packages.d.o, the PTS, etc. Starting
from version 1.14.6, dpkg supports Homepage: as a regular field in
debian/control. You can check Debian Policy § 5.6.23 for more information
<http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Homepage>

Please remove the deprecated pseudo header from the long description of
libswidgets-java and turn it into a regular debian/control field.

In case of multiple binary packages, doing so would also allow to factor
out homepage information into the source stanza of debian/control,
instead of repeating it in each binary stanza.

Cheers.

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Version: 0.1.4-2+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package libswidgets-java has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/701750

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@debian.org.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ansgar Burchardt (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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