Bug#339829: Lintian home page check

2008-04-30 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:34:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that dpkg has the Homepage field[1], shall I update the patch to warn when the homepage is in the description instead of the new field? Or should we wait for policy and the devref to be

Bug#339829: Lintian home page check

2008-04-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 00:43 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: I'm still not sure that the original patch in this bug report (trying to guess at whether a random URL found in the extended description should be a homepage) is really a good idea. I personally would vote for closing this bug.

Bug#339829: Lintian home page check

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that dpkg has the Homepage field[1], shall I update the patch to warn when the homepage is in the description instead of the new field? Or should we wait for policy and the devref to be updated? 1.

Bug#339829: Lintian home page check

2007-09-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I really think the effort would be better spent standardizing an optional URL field in Policy so that people can start using that, package build tools can be updated where necessary to handle it, and package viewing and installation tools

Bug#339829: Lintian home page check

2007-09-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I really think the effort would be better spent standardizing an optional URL field in Policy so that people can start using that, package build tools can be updated where necessary to handle it, and

Bug#339829: Lintian home page check

2006-03-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 05:14:39PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Hello folks, Since I just spent some time looking over the discussion and the patch in lintian bug #339829 to check for the Homepage information in the description of packages and decided not to apply it, I figured I should let