Re: URL of package's website
*- On 6 Jan, Peter S Galbraith wrote about "Re: URL of package's website "
>
> "Bart Szyszka" wrote:
>
>> If there's a better place to suggest this, let me know,
>
> debian-devel, or perhaps even debian-policy.
>> but something I think
>> the Debian package site is missing is a spot for each of the package's own
>> websites.
>
> I agree this would be nice, as well as upstream author.
>
> What I do as a maintainer is put that info in the copyright file
> along with the `It was downloaded from ftp://' info; e.g the
> xtide package: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-copyright?package=xtide
>
> You can always try that since you can access the copyright file
> from the Debian web page for the package. It it's not listed,
> sometimes you can guess the URL from the ftp download site.
>
If I am not mistaken, a thread of this topic was discussed not to long
ago on either debian-devel or debian-policy. I think the thread was
discussing a uniform layout of the README.Debian file or the copyright
file to include this info. I think it was even suggested to place the
info in the package control file.
I agree that it would be nice to have a link on the Debian Packages page
to the upstream source to facilitate finding out more about the package
if desired.
Brian Servis
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