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081005 Ryan Hill wrote: |
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> 5 Oct 2008 "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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>> For projects where the upstream has vanished off the face of the planet |
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>> but ... the code works fine still, there's problems |
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>> with either the requirements of HOMEPAGE or the repoman check. |
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>> Either we need special cases to declare it no longer has a homepage |
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>> or we need to allow the empty HOMEPAGE. |
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> I'd rather see "unknown" or something that implies "I looked, no luck" |
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> rather than "I forgot to fill this in". |
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As a user who sometimes checks the upstream site for further info, |
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I strongly support eg 'Unknown' or 'No support site can be found'. |
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Leaving it blank is ambiguous & might even encourage a buzy dev |
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not to bother trying to find a changed upstream site. |
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