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For projects where the upstream has vanished off the face of the planet, |
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and the project was reasonably obscure, but the code works fine still, |
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there's problems with either the requirements of HOMEPAGE or the repoman |
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check. |
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From PMS: |
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\item[HOMEPAGE] The URI or URIs for a package's homepage, including |
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protocols. May be defined by an eclass. See section~\ref{dependencies} |
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for full syntax. |
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Devmanual: |
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HOMEPAGE: Package's homepage. If you are unable to locate an official |
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one, try to provide a link to freshmeat.net or a similar package |
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tracking site. Never refer to a variable name in the string; include |
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only raw text. |
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As Infra, I suggested that zero or more valid URLs should be present in |
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the bug where the question was raised. |
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However repoman doesn't like an empty HOMEPAGE variable: |
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HOMEPAGE.missing 1 |
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app-mobilephone/smssend/smssend-3.4.ebuild |
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Either we need special cases to declare that it no longer has a |
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homepage, or we need to allow the empty HOMEPAGE. |
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I'm in favour of allowing the variable to empty, because I'm a lazy |
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upstream, and I haven't even made a basic webpage for some of my |
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projects (diradm, localshell, readahead-list, etc). |
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-- |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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