Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-11 Thread Peter Volkov
В Пнд, 06/10/2008 в 15:59 +0200, Robert Buchholz пишет: On Sunday 05 October 2008, Thilo Bangert wrote: HOMEPAGE=http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/; Why not use our package site for this, i.e. HOMEPAGE=http://packages.gentoo.org/package/${CAT}/${PN}; This is not homepage.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-06 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robin H Johnson wrote: HOMEPAGE=http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/; That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for clients trying to load the homepage. http://gentoo.org/package-has-no-homepage/ then. Couldn't a page be created at this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-06 Thread Josh Saddler
Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robin H Johnson wrote: HOMEPAGE=http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/; That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for clients trying to load the homepage. http://gentoo.org/package-has-no-homepage/ then. Couldn't a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-06 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 23:38 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robin H Johnson wrote: HOMEPAGE=http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/; That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for clients trying to load the homepage.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-06 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:49:04 +0200 Hans de Graaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the suggestion is to have one generic homepage for all packages without one, not a Gentoo-specific homepage for each project. +1 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/abandoned/ Put that in all ebuilds for packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Sunday 05 October 2008, Thilo Bangert wrote: Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700 Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either we need special cases to declare that it no longer has a homepage, or we need to allow the empty HOMEPAGE.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-05 Thread Dawid Węgliński
On Sunday 05 of October 2008 12:44:20 Robin H. Johnson wrote: I'm in favour of allowing the variable to empty, because I'm a lazy upstream, and I haven't even made a basic webpage for some of my projects (diradm, localshell, readahead-list, etc). lol +1 for allowing empty $HOMEPAGE

[gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
For projects where the upstream has vanished off the face of the planet, and the project was reasonably obscure, but the code works fine still, there's problems with either the requirements of HOMEPAGE or the repoman check. From PMS: \item[HOMEPAGE] The URI or URIs for a package's homepage,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700 Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either we need special cases to declare that it no longer has a homepage, or we need to allow the empty HOMEPAGE. HOMEPAGE=( ) -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-05 Thread Thilo Bangert
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700 Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either we need special cases to declare that it no longer has a homepage, or we need to allow the empty HOMEPAGE. HOMEPAGE=( )

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-05 Thread Alec Warner
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Thilo Bangert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700 Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either we need special cases to declare that it no longer has a homepage, or we need to allow the empty

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:52:48PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Thilo Bangert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700 Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either we need special cases to