Bug#471425: exim4: Use of old Homepage pseudo field.

[Michael Biebl]

Marc Haber wrote:
> tags #471425 wontfix
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 06:29:02AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> debian/control uses the new Homepage field, but still has the pseudo
>> Homepage field in the long package description.
>> Imho the latter should be removed.
>> E.g. it looks weird in aptitude if Homepage is listed twice.
> 
> This is going to stay in until post-lenny. Same goes for my other
> packages.
> 
> Reason is that I didn't find enough documentation about the Homepage
> field in official documents (pointers accepted), and I don't want that
> important information to be hidden away from users in case tools don't
> support the Homepage field yet.

Hi Marc,

some references I found:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=452105
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html
(note that the use of the old homepage pseudo field is especially marked
deprecated)

Tools that support the new Homepage field: dpkg(-dev), pts,
packages.debian.org, lintian, aptitude, apt

Cheers,
Michael


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