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Re: How come packages dont have a homepage field?



On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:40:34PM -0500, Stefhen Hovland wrote:
> I dont know if this has been asked before, but one thing I notice which
> is missing from .deb's is a field for a package's homepage URL.

Well, you can always go to:

http://packages.debian.org/<package name>

But that is the homepage for the Debian package, not for the original
upstream software. And I don't see a link to upstream on those pages.

Most packages will have some info in /usr/share/doc/<package name>/.

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