Armin Berres
2008-Jan-11 23:51 UTC
[guillem@debian.org: Re: Bug#460309: dpkg: debian/control doesn''t allow one homepage per binary package]
I guess you might be interested in this. We can happily re-insert all our homepage fields me removed :) ----- Forwarded message from Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> ----- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:46:40 +0200 From: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> To: Armin Berres <trigger+debian at space-based.de>, 460309 at bugs.debian.org Cc: control at bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#460309: dpkg: debian/control doesn''t allow one homepage per binary package User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) severity 460309 minor retitle 460309 Fix warnings when using Homepage on binary package stanzas thanks Hi, On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 00:12:13 +0100, Armin Berres wrote:> Package: dpkg > Version: 1.14.15 > Severity: normal> Lot''s of the KDE source packages have a different upstream homepage for > every binary package, because all the different projects are released > together in one tarball. > Right now it is not possible to express this in the Control file, > because the homepage must be set per source package. Otherwise > dpkg-source tells you the following: > "dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field ''Homepage'' in input data > in package''s section of control info file" > Please implement the possibility to specify a different homepage per binary > packages than specified for the source package.This has been supported from the beginning, the only problem is those missleading warnings. Next release fixes the warnings problem, though. regards, guillem ----- End forwarded message -----