Hello Thorsten,
Thank you for your reply and feedback.
Am 03.06.2025 14:38 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2025, Christian Buhtz wrote:
If there is no upstream project anymore and the Debian package is kind
of "upstream" the "homepage" should make this explicit via pointing to
the salsa repo for example.
No, absolutely not. The homepage is the upstream homepage,
and if there is no upstream, it stays unset.
Is there a Debian policy entry about that point?
The thing is it confuses contributors. Having no upstream project
declares a package as dead.
There might be exceptions of course.
Beside of that it is not uncommon in Debian to have a broken or missing
"homepage" field but with upstream being alive. So how should a
contributor know if there is no upstream project for real or if the
field "homepage" is just not set?
Incidentally, it just as well stays unset if there’s no
website for the software. We have VCS-Browser for the SCM.
I am not sure if I understand that sentences because of all the
abbreviations.
But the question for contributors is if the linked source control repo
is upstream or just Debian.
That is the important point.
