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commit: 5d3972de21bc06154fc3e1c6b8bb4041457e4dae |
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Author: Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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AuthorDate: Sun Jan 19 17:56:55 2020 +0000 |
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Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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CommitDate: Wed Jan 22 03:05:29 2020 +0000 |
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URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/policy-guide.git/commit/?id=5d3972de |
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other-metadata: meaningful homepage policy |
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Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/705866 |
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Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/policy-guide/pull/7 |
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Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo.org> |
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other-metadata.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) |
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diff --git a/other-metadata.rst b/other-metadata.rst |
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index ca3759a..61749cb 100644 |
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--- a/other-metadata.rst |
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+++ b/other-metadata.rst |
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@@ -36,4 +36,31 @@ manager behavior which could include use of unpredictable slot, cache |
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invalidation or explicit errors. |
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+.. index:: |
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+ single: homepage; meaningful value |
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+ pair: homepage; gentoo.org |
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+ |
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+HOMEPAGE value must be meaningful |
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+--------------------------------- |
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+:Source: QA |
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+:Reference: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/83cc5bbd7bbe8bdf04dd3c3bc7f8a035 |
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+:Reported: known bad values are reported by pkgcheck |
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+ |
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+The HOMEPAGE specified for the package should either be dedicated |
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+to the package in question or make it easy to find dedicated |
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+information. Packages must not use ``https://www.gentoo.org/`` |
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+or a similar generic homepage. If no homepage is available, the special |
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+value of ``https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/No_homepage`` must be used. |
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+ |
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+*Rationale*: The homepage specified in ebuilds is normally used to |
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+locate information about the upstream project, e.g. downloads, source |
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+code repository, bug tracker, documentation. Homepages that make it |
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+hard to locate information about a specific project have little value, |
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+and the Gentoo homepage generally does not do a good job at linking even |
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+major Gentoo projects. Furthermore, many of the projects did not even |
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+have a single dedicated subpage anywhere in Gentoo web space. In all |
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+those cases, using the explicit No_homepage marker at least makes it |
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+easy to identify such packages. |
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+ |
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.. _metadata invariance: https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/7/pms.html#x1-600007.1 |
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