Re: [gentoo-dev] Lifting the HOMEPAGE requirement for ebuilds

[Pacho Ramos]

El lun, 14-01-2013 a las 15:49 -0500, Ian Stakenvicius escribió:
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> On 14/01/13 03:15 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > El lun, 14-01-2013 a las 18:15 +0100, hasufell escribió: [...]
> >>>> +1 to allow empty/missing HOMEPAGE variable
> >>>>
> >>>> dead homepage => useless http://gentoo.org => useless
> >>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org => too obvious
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> An empty homepage usually means the package is dead. I'd rather
> >>> see the cvs/git/svn url being used as HOMEPAGE in case your
> >>> tiny little script has no proj page at all.
> >>>
> >>
> >> No, an empty homepage just means upstream is dead. There are
> >> numerous examples of years old packages still working fine
> >> without a single update.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Other option is to use "gentoo.org" as HOMEPAGE for that packages
> > (as some of them are already doing). But, since people think it's
> > useless, why not use as HOMEPAGE
> > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/... ?
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> Or what about a URL to a wiki.gentoo.org page for dead upstream packages?

Well, the advantage of using sources.gentoo.org is that people will find
there patches and stuff related with the package :/