Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> writes: > If you want to know where the upstream source comes from, > debian/upstream/metadata or debian/copyright are the right places to > look, not the Homepage.
It's unfortunate that we decided that this information should live in 3 separate places, but that's a war I'm not interested in fighting. The "Homepage" is the only thing https://tracker.debian.org/ displays as a link to the upstream project. So today https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ministat says and shows nothing about where this thing came from. Some sort of Homepage field would fix that. The git repo would be better probably: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.bin/ministat > In some cases I would also make Homepage refer to the upstream VCS web > view if there is no better page, but in this case I think the VCS web > view is so user-hostile that it is not suitable. Maybe, but we should have SOMETHING. Even https://freebsd.org would be better than nothing. >> Vcs-Git: https://git.decadent.org.uk/git/ministat.git/ >> Vcs-Browser: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb?p=ministat.git >> >> Furthermore, those Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser links are dead. > > I moved the Debian packaging repository to > <https://salsa.debian.org/benh/ministat> years ago, but I haven't yet > had a reason to upload. OK, that's great. I just fixed the crash in the other bug, so there's a reason now :) About to reply to that bug. Thanks.
