[DRE-maint] Bug#615434: libmarkaby-ruby1.8: please use Homepage field to point to upstream homepage

[zack at debian.org]

Package: libmarkaby-ruby1.8
Severity: minor
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: homepage-field

[ This is an automated bug report, part of the mass bug filing discussed
  at <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/02/msg00367.html>. The
  submitter is Stefano Zacchiroli, reachable at <zack at debian.org>. ]

According to lintian, libmarkaby-ruby1.8 uses its long description
to point to upstream homepage, following an old Developer's Reference
recommendation. That practice has various drawbacks, including the
inability to automatically process homepage information from
package-related services such as packages.d.o, the PTS, etc. Starting
from version 1.14.6, dpkg supports Homepage: as a regular field in
debian/control. You can check Debian Policy § 5.6.23 for more information
<http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Homepage>

Please remove the deprecated pseudo header from the long description of
libmarkaby-ruby1.8 and turn it into a regular debian/control field.

In case of multiple binary packages, doing so would also allow to factor
out homepage information into the source stanza of debian/control,
instead of repeating it in each binary stanza.

Cheers.