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On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700 |
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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> For projects where the upstream has vanished off the face of the |
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> planet, and the project was reasonably obscure, but the code works |
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> fine still, there's problems with either the requirements of HOMEPAGE |
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> or the repoman 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 |
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> in 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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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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