On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:29:49AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> IIRC I was doing a QA upload for a package and I wanted to add a Homepage
> field.
> After some digging I noticed the original website went away. In that case
> adding "Homepage: None" makes this explicit.
I would second this,
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:04:48PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 07:29:28PM -0500, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I would like to propose the following extension to "5.6.23.", the
> > > "Homepage" header line:
> > >
> > > ---
> > > If no homepage exists, e.g. because
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 07:29:28PM -0500, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I would like to propose the following extension to "5.6.23.", the
> > "Homepage" header line:
> >
> > ---
> > If no homepage exists, e.g. because the software is abandoned and
> > vanished off the net, "None" can be specified
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:06:02AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Are you proposing to make the ‘Homepage’ field mandatory?
No, it should still be optional.
Cheers,
Moritz
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 07:29:28PM -0500, Jonathan Yu wrote:
>
> Can you think of any other possible use cases for having "None" upstream?
Native packages which don't warrant a homepage or packages which are too
tiny to warrant a home page, e.g. fonts.
Cheers,
Moritz
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Hi,
> I would like to propose the following extension to "5.6.23.", the
> "Homepage" header line:
>
> ---
> If no homepage exists, e.g. because the software is abandoned and
> vanished off the net, "None" can be specified.
> ---
While I see the point in having something like this, perhaps some
st
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:06:02AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Moritz Muehlenhoff writes:
>
> > I would like to propose the following extension to "5.6.23.", the
> > "Homepage" header line:
>
> (That's “field”, by the way. There's no header in the control file, just
> paragraphs that contain fiel
Ben Finney (17/02/2010):
> > ---
> > If no homepage exists, e.g. because the software is abandoned and
> > vanished off the net, "None" can be specified.
> > ---
>
> Is this not indicated by omitting the ‘Homepage’ field?
No.
> Are you proposing to make the ‘Homepage’ field mandatory?
No.
Mra
Moritz Muehlenhoff writes:
> I would like to propose the following extension to "5.6.23.", the
> "Homepage" header line:
(That's “field”, by the way. There's no header in the control file, just
paragraphs that contain fields.)
> ---
> If no homepage exists, e.g. because the software is abandone
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.4.0
Severity: wishlist
I would like to propose the following extension to "5.6.23.", the
"Homepage" header line:
---
If no homepage exists, e.g. because the software is abandoned and
vanished off the net, "None" can be specified.
---
Cheers,
Moritz
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