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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lifting the HOMEPAGE requirement for ebuilds
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:15:13
Message-Id: 1358194503.2181.12.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lifting the HOMEPAGE requirement for ebuilds by hasufell
1 El lun, 14-01-2013 a las 18:15 +0100, hasufell escribió:
2 [...]
3 > >> +1 to allow empty/missing HOMEPAGE variable
4 > >>
5 > >> dead homepage => useless
6 > >> http://gentoo.org => useless
7 > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org => too obvious
8 > >>
9 > >
10 > > An empty homepage usually means the package is dead. I'd rather see
11 > > the cvs/git/svn url being used as HOMEPAGE in case your tiny little
12 > > script has no proj page at all.
13 > >
14 >
15 > No, an empty homepage just means upstream is dead. There are numerous
16 > examples of years old packages still working fine without a single update.
17 >
18 >
19
20 Other option is to use "gentoo.org" as HOMEPAGE for that packages (as
21 some of them are already doing). But, since people think it's useless,
22 why not use as HOMEPAGE
23 http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/...
24 ?

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