On Sun, January 16, 2011 03:17, Russ Allbery wrote: > Charles Plessy <[email protected]> writes: >> I support Joey's comment and propose to simply remove the requirement >> from the Policy. I do not think that people will remove the information >> from debian/copyright without having a Homepage field if they do not >> have one, so I propose to keep thinks short and to not cross-reference >> nor replace with incitations. > > I could have sworn we'd discussed this before. > > I'm opposed to this change as proposed because it means that we can have > packages without any hint as to where the upstream source came from (since > Homepage is not required).
I'm not enthousiastic yet either, because the proposal lacks the information about what cost is associated with the current sitiuation. Really, it's just a few keystrokes when first creating the package and hardly needs to be changed afterward. I have never found this to be a burden in any way, and the information in the Homepage field may indeed be not as complete. What problem is this trying to solve? Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
