[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes:
> Putting it in a README file won't help, it can't be automatically
> extracted. The problem is that debian/control is the only file with
> a parsable format, maybe such infos could be added to another file,
> say debian/infos, in a standardized manner.
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well we already have the links in the copyright files now, so if
> they're going to be wrong half the time that must already be a
> problem.
I think the link in the copyright file to the upstream sources should
be in a standardized, parsable format. Likewise the author name.
That way lintian could check for them. The last time I checked, 5 or
10 percent of our packages lacked any link to the upstream sources.
Then, it would make sense to add a link to the project home page in
the same place. That would not impact the Packages files.
- Jim Van Zandt
