Hi Andreas, Thanks for all the work! regarding homepage: although probably 99% of package have such one, some, theoretically, might not -- just a download folder at minimum. So, should then those be pointed to as the 'homepage'?
P.S. Fixed NEST -- got homepage ;) On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently rewriting the code which renders the web sentinel tasks > pages and stumbled upon one issue. When writing the former code I > intended to implement it this way that for a package which is not in > the Debian pool to fields are mandatory: > Homepage and Pkg-Description > When comparing the rendering result of the old and the new code I > realised that the old code did not matched my specification because even > if the (prospective) package nest is lacking a Homepage field it is > rendered at > http://blends.debian.net/science/tasks/neuroscience-modeling#nest > The new code will just cause an intry in the logs: > ERROR - blendstasktools.py (1495): Package nest neither in pool nor new and > has no homepage information - ignored > and no paragraph for nest will be rendered because the field is missing > (see below for a snipped from the relevan tasks file). The question is > now: What behaviour would you consider reasonable? Should we enforce > specifying a homepage field or not? (This question is not only > targetting against this specific package but in general.) > Kind regards > Andreas. > Snippet from tasks/neuroscience-modeling: > ; Added by blends-inject 0.0.5. [Please note here if modified manually] > Suggests: nest > Responsible: Yury V. Zaytsev <[email protected]> > License: non-FOSS > Vcs-Browser: http://git.zaytsev.net/?p=nest-packaging.git;a=summary > Vcs-Git: git://git.zaytsev.net/nest-packaging.git > Pkg-URL: http://git.zaytsev.net/?p=nest-packaging.git;a=summary > Pkg-Description: A simulator for networks of spiking neurons > NEST is a simulation system for large networks of biologically realistic > point-neurons and neurons with a small number of electrical compartments. > Published-Authors: Gewaltig M-O and Diesmann M > Published-In: Scholarpedia 2(4):1430 > Published-Title: NEST (Neural Simulation Tool) > Published-Year: 2007 > Registration: http://www.nest-initiative.org/download/Software:Download.php > Remark: Mentioned packaging is not providing NEST itself but rather only > packaging materials so you could -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
