Bug#433469: PTS: please parse 'Homepage:' pseudo-header in the Descriptions...
* Stefano Zacchiroli [Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:27:18 +0200]:
> XB- stuff can be put in
> the source part and will be propagated to all binary packages?
Yes.
> More generally I've an objection to your proposal, the "Homepage"
> property is specific of a source package,
It is, but current usage puts it in the description for binary packages.
One may argue that it may be because there is no description in the
source package, but I believe it's also more useful there:
> since usually it is tied to
> where I downloaded a program from, why you think it should be tied to
> binary packages?
Well, I don't think the main use of the Homepage field is people looking
at the source package visiting it to download a new tarball or
something; that's what debian/copyright is for.
It's my impression that is mostly useful for users, that may visit it to
get more documentation, or whatever.
> (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).
Deficiency how? show shows binary records, showsrc shows source records.
What would you correct in that?
As per my comments above, I really believe the Homepage field belongs to
the binary records.
Cheers,
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