Re: Upstream Developers
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:00:47 -0500
"James A. Treacy" <treacy@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:00:41PM -0500, Scott E. Tablett wrote:
> > I sometimes use the debian web pages to locate packages of interest. To
> > find out more information on a package/application, it might be helpful
> > to have a link to the upstream developer's web pages.
> >
> We'd love to make that info available. Unfortunately, no one has managed
> to push through a standard way of providing that information in packages.
> Until that is done, it won't be done - unless you want to volunteer to
> try to manually create an maintain such a list for all > 8600 packages. :)
why not debian/copyright? I think an URL to the official webpage is much
more useful than the ftp site from wich you can download the tar.gz...
[]s!
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Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov>
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