Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages without homepages

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 05:54, Duncan wrote:
> Matthias Langer posted <1136952512.5741.5.camel@××××××××××.ruz-net>,
>
> excerpted below,  on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:08:31 +0100:
> > After reading the response for bug 118607, which i filed, i was
> > woundering if there isn't a more appropriate default procedure for
> > packages with no homepages then just leaving the invalid
> > 'homepage-link' alone ... Shouldn't there be a way to tell portage
> > that a certain package simply doesn't have a homepage ? Matthias
>
> There was a recent thread on this, probably a month or two ago.
> Various devs offered various suggestions, most of which they've been
> using in packages they maintain.  Apparently repoman complains if the
> variable isn't there, so devs simply put "none" or "" or
> "http://www.gentoo.org" or their dev page address as the homepage.
> Again, look around, you'll see these "solutions" and others, such as
> leaving the stale address in place as in the case at hand.  There's was
> no single standard solution agreed to, as it appeared no one was
> sufficiently interested to push one, figuring more important things,
> like squashing real functionality bugs, was more important, with the
> limited time every Gentoo dev has, being they are all volunteers.

Better solution is to use something like the freshmeat directory, or if 
possible the directory of the webserver/ftp server where the packages get 
released.

Paul

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