On 30 June 2011 19:22, Clint Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:33:36PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>
>> There is no home page URL or even README. It would be nice to have a
>> more obvious indication of authorship and upstream.
>
> Is there information you would like beyond that which is in
> debian/copyright?
Yes: upstream. The copyright file gives the author (sorry I didn't
notice that before) but no indication of upstream. Also copyright
files are not the obvious place to look for a maintainer, which is
what I really meant.
What I was really after on a web page was the upstream sources and any
other resources (bug tracker &c.). Of course if any of these resources
coincide with Debian (e.g. bug tracking) then the README could
usefully say that. ("Debian-native" packages often leave one to guess
their status simply from the information they omit, rather than by
explicitly saying "this package is developed in Debian: here is that
alioth development page; please file all bugs in the Debian BTS".)
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