Re: Including package's home page with package description

1998-12-24 Thread James A. Treacy
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

Including package's home page with package description

1998-12-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
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

Re: Including package's home page with package description

1998-12-14 Thread Nils Lohner
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