Re: Including package's home page with package description
On Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 06:18:04AM +0100, Juergen A. Erhard wrote: On a related note: can someone explain how one tames the `search' system on www.debian.org? There seems to be no way to limit searches to categories (like, only package descriptions) The searching leaves a lot to be desired. Being restricted to DFSG software makes it much more difficult to implement this. There has been a lot of development work on swish++ recently and once it can be restricted to search only on META tags, I will switch to using it (it may already support it, but it doesn't work as shown in the man page). The searching will be greatly improved in the process. Jay Treacy
Including package's home page with package description
When I navigate the net for new software, I like to see screenshots (eg. LyX, wxftp, xemacs, etc). I presume that users navigating http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages would also often want to know more about a package before downloading it. A few of these questions could be answered with an extra link to the package's home page (if it exists) on the Debian package's page. The only problem is that this info is not currently included with the packages. Perhaps a new and optional www line in the control file would be a nice addition? Peter
Re: Including package's home page with package description
There is currently the following email address for packages: Package Contacts -- packagename@packages.debian.org maybe a http://www.debian.org/packages/packagename web page could be created and even generated from the information in the .deb? Of course, that still doesn't address the initial problem: that the home page is not included in that info :) Nils. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter S Galbraith writes: When I navigate the net for new software, I like to see screenshots (eg. LyX, wxftp, xemacs, etc). I presume that users navigating http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages would also often want to know more about a package before downloading it. A few of these questions could be answered with an extra link to the package's home page (if it exists) on the Debian package's page. The only problem is that this info is not currently included with the packages. Perhaps a new and optional www line in the control file would be a nice addition? Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
