Re: What to do if Homepage seems to have vanished
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:
> 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.
One low-tech thing that one could do is just put, in the package long
description, a note that the software is dead upstream. Personally, I
think that's often information worthy of being in the long description;
one purpose of the long description, after all, is to provide help to a
user trying to pick between multiple packages that may solve their
problem.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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