Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When the URL is something like http://www.myniceproject.org, I don't see > > that would be the difference in having the extra space or not. > > Well, it matters to people with 20-character-wide windows, if there are > any such people (there could potentially be with GUI package managers, > although it's unlikely). It's admittedly an edge case, but wrapping the > URL is also incorrect, so I agree with the devref suggestion to mark it as > not wrappable. > > > And the extra space doesn't look nice in the description, nor does it > > look nice in the http://packages.debian.org page, and I doubt it looks > > nice in synaptic either. Therefore, I prefer not to add an extra space, > > because I prefer my URLs to look just as the rest of the text. > > Thus proving that the real solution is to get rid of the Homepage bit > completely and instead add a real field to dpkg, since people won't even > agree on and follow the syntax for the hack of putting it in the long > description so that people can parse it properly. *sigh*
Does the Lintian issua an information message of any kinf for the Homepage: field? If it would, the maintainers could possibly pay more attention. Not many are aware of the spcae or "two space" reason for long URLs. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
