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From: Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:52:18 -0700
Peter Volkov wrote:
> В В�к, 30/11/2008 в 14:50 +0100, Tobias Scherbaum пишет:
>> In most (nearly all?) cases a HOMEPAGE change does also affect older versions.
>> Does someone have an example where older versions stay at an old homepage
>> and newer versions moved to a new homepage?
> 
> Yes. This is quite a common case when one upstream stopped development
> of the package and new developer took it. traceroute, flow-tools are
> just examples from the top of my head. I remember I saw more such
> things...

Add libdvdread to the list.  Same as others, newer version is a forked one.

Steve


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[RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
-- Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
-- Jan Kundrát
Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
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