On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:25:16AM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 02:51:54PM +0200, Francesco Tapparo wrote: > > I'm maintaining scwm; Greg Badros, an upstream author, contacted me about > > the page http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lscwm.html. This page is a bit > > misleading: > > > > "Maintainer for scwm is Francesco Tapparo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. " > > > > He would like better something as: > > "Scwm is written by Greg J. Badros and Maciej Stachowiak. > > Scwm's home web site is: scwm.mit.edu. > > The maintainer for the Debian scwm package is Francesco Tapparo..." > > > > and links to the upstream scwm page. > > > > I agree with Greg. So I think would be very useful if the script generating > > the pages would be updated to properly use an "Upstream Maintainer/s" and an > > "Upstream Web Page" fields in the packages. > > Is this feasible or it's hard? I'm not sure I've the needed skillful for > > the job (I do'nt master html), but I can try. > > There is no Upstream anything in packages.. atleast not normally. There > has been talk about adding those tag lines but nothing has ever been > settled.
I was not very clear: my proposal was to recognize these fields, their use would be optional, and not the default choice: they would be used only if the upstream maintainer ask to the package maintainer to have its name in our d escription pages. I suspect a lot of upstream maintainer does not want that (if we put their name in the BTS page, for example, they are going to receive a lot of debian specific questions). > > The other thought.. the bug pages were not designed for giving out that > sort of information. If a person wants to know, they can (and should) go > to the copyright file in /usr/doc.. that's what the file is for. It might > be possible to make a small change: say "Debian Maintainer for..." instead. Yes, but a lot of people does not read the /usr/doc/* files. They surf the web and they find the description pages. > > The final problem is who "owns" the BTS output. It's > [EMAIL PROTECTED] The WWW people have little control over the BTS. Thanks I did'nt realize that, I'll mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Francesco Tapparo | [EMAIL PROTECTED] fight for your software freedoms: www.fsf.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
