#324: Deprecate package-url field
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Reporter: duncan | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2
Platform: |
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The package-url field was originally supposed to be to tell users where
exactly they could find the .tar.gz package for this version of the
package. That was from a time before hackage and so now it is redundant
because hackage provides the package url. The field is generally unused
and when it is used it often just links to the darcs repo or home page.
We should deprecate it and suggest people use the homepage url and the new
way of specifying a source control repo (see #58).
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/324>
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