Re: homepage in udebs?

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:30 +, Colin Watson wrote:

> With my d-i hat on, I would certainly recommend not including the
> Homepage field in udebs. It's not actually forbidden as such, but any
> waste of space in udebs is frowned upon.

I thought as much.

> I expect you could work around this by putting the Homepage field in the
> binary stanza rather than in the source stanza.

Hmmm, perhaps it would be best to fix it in dpkg so that the Sources
have the homepage and the PTS can show the homepage. I'll file a bug
about this tomorrow.

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Re: homepage in udebs?

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:59:43PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm sponsoring ttf-khmeros, which produces a font udeb for d-i. The
> > latest ttf-khmeros update moved the homepage from the package
> > description to the new dpkg source package field. As a result, lintian
> > complains with "I: ttf-khmeros-udeb udeb: unknown-field-in-control
> > homepage". Is this a bug in dpkg-buildpackage for propagating the
> > homepage to the udeb, or a bug in lintian? I'm inclined to think the
> > former, as homepages probably aren't much use in udebs.
> 
> I'm honestly not sure.  udebs are a bizarre special case with no complete
> specification that I know of, so there isn't really a reference for what
> they should and shouldn't have relative to a regular package.  (Ideally,
> we should specify udebs in Policy, but part of the point of udebs is that
> they often don't comply with Policy, so this is tricky.)
> 
> I'd check with the d-i team and ask them their opinion.  I'm happy to
> modify lintian to match if needed.

With my d-i hat on, I would certainly recommend not including the
Homepage field in udebs. It's not actually forbidden as such, but any
waste of space in udebs is frowned upon.

I expect you could work around this by putting the Homepage field in the
binary stanza rather than in the source stanza.

The nearest we have to a specification of udebs is
installer/doc/devel/modules.txt in d-i SVN (which corresponds to
doc/devel/modules.txt in the debian-installer source package).

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Re: homepage in udebs?

[Paul Wise]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:59 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

> I'd check with the d-i team and ask them their opinion.  I'm happy to
> modify lintian to match if needed.

Thanks for that.

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Re: homepage in udebs?

[Russ Allbery]

Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm sponsoring ttf-khmeros, which produces a font udeb for d-i. The
> latest ttf-khmeros update moved the homepage from the package
> description to the new dpkg source package field. As a result, lintian
> complains with "I: ttf-khmeros-udeb udeb: unknown-field-in-control
> homepage". Is this a bug in dpkg-buildpackage for propagating the
> homepage to the udeb, or a bug in lintian? I'm inclined to think the
> former, as homepages probably aren't much use in udebs.

I'm honestly not sure.  udebs are a bizarre special case with no complete
specification that I know of, so there isn't really a reference for what
they should and shouldn't have relative to a regular package.  (Ideally,
we should specify udebs in Policy, but part of the point of udebs is that
they often don't comply with Policy, so this is tricky.)

I'd check with the d-i team and ask them their opinion.  I'm happy to
modify lintian to match if needed.

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