On Saturday 16 February 2008 11:59:29 pm Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I'm maintaining the package fastdnaml and wanted to move the Homepage > information I putted into the long description formerly to the Homepage > tag of the control file. When doing so I verified that the home page is > correct but failed. The project seems to have vanished from the web. > I have to check this but I'm asking for general advise - it might be > the case for other packages. IMHO it would be some valuable information > for the user that there is no homepage. It is different if the > Homepage tag in the description is just missing or whether we explicitely > state that there is no homepage available. > > This would require a certain keyword because it would make no sense for > the tools who build web pages from the control info to "not available" > or something like that. > > What do you think about this? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de AFAICT, it would seem that didiwiki is in this group as well. I found plenty of links to it's nonexistant homepage. It's a frusterating situation, since most users (myself included) expect to be able to go to the homepage and find out more about the package. I see no reason they shouldn't be kept, assuming they are properly maintained. But it'd be nice to know for sure that they have no homepage :). -- Sincerely, Jack Mudge jakykong@theanythingbox.com My GPG Public Key can be found at: https://www.theanythingbox.com/pgp.htm and Below.
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