On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Alexander Schmehl wrote:Well, a third and fourth alternative would be to download the documentation from archive.org, and (assuming you have the right for distribution) but them in a -doc package or put it on people.debian.org - in that case your might want to adjust it a bit to explain the situation.Why not use the services of alioth which is meant for hosting projects?
Well, I do not really care about the _content_ of a homepage of the
project. I care about the _existence_. The fact that there is _no_
homepage or there _was_ a homepage and is not _anymore_ is IMHO an
important piece of information that I want to give our users at a
prominent place (like debian/control because it is forewarded to the
places where you come in touch with the package). If it is about
documentation users will go to /usr/share/doc/<pkgname> and it is
easy to put the content of the formerly existing page to this place.
(In fact I did so for the package in question I used as an example
even when the homepage existed.) A not existing homepage just says
something about the vitality of the project, the frequency of updated
you could expect, the chances to get wishlist bugs solved etc.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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