* Raphael Frey <freyraph...@gmail.com> [2008-12-14 21:16:12 CET]: > There are no external web links to the official project home pages of > each package on http://packages.debian.org.
That's not true like Simon pointed out, at least not as a general statement. > I do not see why the Debian project should obscure the originators of > the packages and I do not think that there is any rational reason. The rational reason is that the support for the Homepage source control field is still rather young and it wasn't adopted by all packages yet. > Without these links you also do not know where you can download the > current source code without downloading the deb file. That's not true neither. For the source code related to the binary package there is the source link in the pages, and where the source was downloaded from is a required part of the copyright file which is linked from every package page, too. > Furthermore Debian takes credit for the packages/programmes without > having created them. I'm not sure if I fully understand that claim. In what way do you mean that Debian takes credit here where credit should be due otherwise? Maybe you want to be referred to the copyright file linked from each package page? > Ubuntu for example provides such links (see e. g. > http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/gnome/abiword) but Debian does > not. That was a change that Ubuntu created to the abiword package and didn't care to push it back to us - which is quite unfortunate. I am sure that the package maintainers of abiword would have incorporated that informations without any hesitation. > Also other distributions do not provide such links but I think Debian > could be a pattern to these distributions. That's why the Homepage source control field was approved and is already implemented in quite a fair amount of packages. It's not half the source package count yet, but it's on its way to get there and won't stop. :) So long, and thanks for your concerns! Rhonda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
