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On Monday 14 January 2013 15:15:03 Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> El lun, 14-01-2013 a las 18:15 +0100, hasufell escribió: |
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> [...] |
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> |
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> > >> +1 to allow empty/missing HOMEPAGE variable |
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> > >> |
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> > >> dead homepage => useless |
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> > >> http://gentoo.org => useless |
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> > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org => too obvious |
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> > > |
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> > > An empty homepage usually means the package is dead. I'd rather see |
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> > > the cvs/git/svn url being used as HOMEPAGE in case your tiny little |
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> > > script has no proj page at all. |
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> > |
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> > No, an empty homepage just means upstream is dead. There are numerous |
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> > examples of years old packages still working fine without a single |
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> > update. |
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> |
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> Other option is to use "gentoo.org" as HOMEPAGE for that packages (as |
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> some of them are already doing). But, since people think it's useless, |
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> why not use as HOMEPAGE |
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> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/... |
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> ? |
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semi-related, drop that intermediate noise. |
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http://sources.gentoo.org/${CATEGORY}/${PN}/ |
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it'll redirect to the right place |
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-mike |
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