On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:03:55AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > Why don't we just start using XS-Homepage
> No objection to that, but the header should be XB-Homepage, or XSB at
> most. (That is, it should appear in Packages.gz, and probably not in
> Sources.gz.)
Dato, I'm a bit ignorant on this, can you please enlighten me?
I now that XS- goes to the Sources and should be put in the source part
of debian/control. I guess XB- goes to Packages and should be put in the
various binary parts of debian/control.
But the latter is suboptimal, has the maintainer would have to put that
for each binary package, or am I missing that XB- stuff can be put in
the source part and will be propagated to all binary packages?
More generally I've an objection to your proposal, the "Homepage"
property is specific of a source package, since usually it is tied to
where I downloaded a program from, why you think it should be tied to
binary packages? (and no, I do not consider the fact that it won't be
visible using the current "show" apt-cache command, but only using
"showsrc", as a valid reason: that is a deficiency of our tools at
best).
Thanks for your comment!
Cheers.
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