Re: home page in the information of a package

[Andrew Shugg <andrew@neep.com.au>]

Jordi Burguet Castell said:
> I was looking at http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/xplanet.html and 
> wanted to see some screenshots, so I looked for the home page, but there 
> doesn't seem to be any link to it. I think it would be very nice to add this 
> to the information about packages, as they do in rpmfind.net for instance.

Currently it is up to the package maintainer to include this sort of
information (or not) in the package description.  In Colin Watson's
guidelines, "Writing Debian package descriptions"[1], he suggests that
this information be included.  There have been proposals to add the
information as another field to the package 'header' but this has not
happened yet.

> By the way, I found the home page, http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/, this is 
> just to point that it would be nice to have that link.

I suggest you file a wishlist bug against the xplanet Debian package,
asking for that URL to be added to the package description.

Andrew.

[1]  http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html

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