Bug#447970: Add support for the Homepage field
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 06:57:20AM +0200, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> was heard to say:
> Quoting Daniel Burrows (dburrows@debian.org):
> > Package: libapt-pkg-dev
> > Version: 0.7.6
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > libapt doesn't support the .deb Homepage control field. Support for
> > this field would allow frontends to display and/or use this information.
>
>
> Oh, i didn't know that something was needed in libapt. I'll add
> information about this bug report to the "Homepage transition" wiki
> page in wiki.d.o (I don't have net access as of now to check the page
> exact name).
>
> Michael, Otavio, that patch is worth it. I'm not in position to decide
> whether it is correct but I suspect that a patch from aptitude's
> author has great chances to be correct...:)
Hah, you have a lot more confidence in my abilities than me.
I've gotten a local apt package built with my patch, which seems to
cause pkgRecords::Lookup to crash. I can't figure out why at the
moment; it looks like it doesn't even run any code that I've changed!
I'll look at it on the way to work.
Daniel
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