On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:49:32PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Pierre Habouzit 2007-07-17 <[🔎] 20070717123702.25719.51809.reportbug@localhost> > > Please parse the Homepage: pseudo-header in the control's > > descriptions, and display it in the packages summaries, as it's already > > done with XS-Vcs-Browser. > > XS-* is a real field, just an "unofficial" one. > > > An example of such a package is nsd3, note that packages.d.o has it > > right: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/nsd3. > > I think pdo just adds <a href> to whatever substring that looks like > an URL, cf. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/dds. > > Having said that, I don't oppose this proposal, I would just prefer a > less ugly standard used first. (Why is there a space at the beginning > of that line anyway?) Yes, I'd would have preferred a better standard as well, thing is, custom is that many packages uses that: $ grep '^ *Homepage:' /var/lib/apt/lists/mad_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages | wc -l 4223 That's quite a lot (and as you can see, some people use two spaces, some don't). If we draft a proper standard, note that the PTS would like to have XS-URL/Homepage headers, whereas what suits the users is a header that the binary packages have. And I guess this is the good part of having Homepage part of the Description, it's easy to spot: it's not lost in the myriad of other headers, it just at the end of the Description, and is also shown in dselect/aptitude/$FRONTEND. Having a XB-URL/Homepage would be seen as a regression from the user POV if the tools don't show it specifically. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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