commit: 5d3972de21bc06154fc3e1c6b8bb4041457e4dae Author: Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Sun Jan 19 17:56:55 2020 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Wed Jan 22 03:05:29 2020 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/policy-guide.git/commit/?id=5d3972de
other-metadata: meaningful homepage policy Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/705866 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/policy-guide/pull/7 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo.org> other-metadata.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/other-metadata.rst b/other-metadata.rst index ca3759a..61749cb 100644 --- a/other-metadata.rst +++ b/other-metadata.rst @@ -36,4 +36,31 @@ manager behavior which could include use of unpredictable slot, cache invalidation or explicit errors. +.. index:: + single: homepage; meaningful value + pair: homepage; gentoo.org + +HOMEPAGE value must be meaningful +--------------------------------- +:Source: QA +:Reference: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/83cc5bbd7bbe8bdf04dd3c3bc7f8a035 +:Reported: known bad values are reported by pkgcheck + +The HOMEPAGE specified for the package should either be dedicated +to the package in question or make it easy to find dedicated +information. Packages must not use ``https://www.gentoo.org/`` +or a similar generic homepage. If no homepage is available, the special +value of ``https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/No_homepage`` must be used. + +*Rationale*: The homepage specified in ebuilds is normally used to +locate information about the upstream project, e.g. downloads, source +code repository, bug tracker, documentation. Homepages that make it +hard to locate information about a specific project have little value, +and the Gentoo homepage generally does not do a good job at linking even +major Gentoo projects. Furthermore, many of the projects did not even +have a single dedicated subpage anywhere in Gentoo web space. In all +those cases, using the explicit No_homepage marker at least makes it +easy to identify such packages. + + .. _metadata invariance: https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/7/pms.html#x1-600007.1
