On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:13:38AM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > how hard would it be to have the Packages pages on the Debian web site > show the > packages home URL, i.e. where the author is? A few times I have been > hunting > for this because I needed a bsd or Sun version of a program. Downloading > the > orig.tar.gz and looking inside can be cumbersome. > > Perhaps the website could mirror the copyright file from each > package. This contains the copyright notice from the source as well > as the upstream URL. > The copyright files are already available. Unfortunately, many packages don't include the programs homepage.
It would be nice if we could put the programs url on the page explicitly, if one exists. The problem is that there is no standard place or format for this. Sure some packages include it in the copyright file, but it is not in a standard format which makes it difficult to extract (grabbing the first url in the copyright file is prone to error given the lack of a standard format). I have been advocating for the creation of a standard place for information such as this for a long time. The information does not need to go into the archives Packages file (they are large enough as it is), as long as it can be extracted from a .deb in a known way. If any of you know of a good way to do this, please bring it up on debian-policy. Jay Treacy
