[Pkg-jed-commit] r344 - jed/trunk/debian

[Jörg Sommer]

Hello Rafael,

Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Sat 08. Jul, 12:15 (+0200):
> * Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2006-07-08 11:21]:
> 
> > Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Sat 08. Jul, 07:54 (+0000):
> > > Author: rafael
> > > Date: 2006-07-08 07:54:38 +0000 (Sat, 08 Jul 2006)
> > > New Revision: 344
> > > 
> > > Modified:
> > >    jed/trunk/debian/control
> > > Log:
> > > * Minor withe space removal
> > > 
> > >   .
> > > -  Homepage: http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
> > > + Homepage: http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
> > 
> > Why this? dev-ref says:
> > 
> > 6.2.4. Upstream home page
> > -------------------------
> > 
> >         .
> >          Homepage: http://some-project.some-place.org/
> > 
> >   Note the spaces prepending the line, which serves to break the lines
> >   correctly.  To see an example of how this displays, see
> >   http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/wml.
> 
> I was not aware of this requirement, thanks for the heads up.  I already
> reverted the changes in SVN.  Just out of curiosity, there is a huge amount
> of packages that currently do not have the extra leading space in the
> Homepage pseudo-field.  It is something that Lintian could easily check.

There was a discussion on d-d, d-m or d-p where this was discussed, too.
The main opinion was the pseudo header is a big hack and should be
replaced by a real header. But there was also a proposal to maintain such
informations outside the control file like debtags. But then the
discussion ended abrupt without having reached a consense.

Bye, Jörg.
-- 
Der Wille und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.
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