Re: links

[Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:31:22PM -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:54:05AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > Oh, that's an issue that each package has to solve, not a web page
> > interface, because each of the packages needs to provide such a URL before
> > we can make it a link on the web pages.
> > 
> > We have a bug report registered about this, but I doubt it will be solved
> > quickly due to the number of packages that would need modifying...
> 
> It is a good suggestion. If I want to implement this in my packages,
> what do I have to do? If I insert a URL, will it automatically be
> recognized as one by "the system"?

If your package description contains a URL, it will automatically
be converted into a link on the webpage for your package.

Matt