Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I really think the effort would be better spent standardizing an >> optional URL field in Policy so that people can start using that, >> package build tools can be updated where necessary to handle it, and >> package viewing and installation tools can start to look for it. In >> the meantime, packagers can start using XBS-URL right now and the right >> thing will happen. > Now that dpkg has the Homepage field[1], shall I update the patch to > warn when the homepage is in the description instead of the new field? > Or should we wait for policy and the devref to be updated? > 1. http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg/news/20070905T053202Z.html We should probably wait for devref and Policy, although that's been hampered by no one on the Policy delegation having any time at all to work on Policy. :/ -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
