From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kma5k-0005Ln-05 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:20:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D3CAE046B; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay1h.uniserve.ca [216.113.194.202]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F984E046B for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-138.59.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.59.138] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Kma5f-0002Pb-Rn for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:20:33 -0700 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:20:30 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:20:30 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268) Message-ID: <20081005202030.GA4539@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20081005104420.GE15949@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <20081005114537.2166a9df@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081005114537.2166a9df@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.0 0 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.0 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Archives-Salt: f63f63cb-cb6e-4f57-b9eb-24e3f5560318 X-Archives-Hash: 77fa72a52f3cd3cfbb7ea573825c6599 081005 Ryan Hill wrote: > 5 Oct 2008 "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: >> For projects where the upstream has vanished off the face of the planet >> but ... the code works fine still, there's problems >> with either the requirements of HOMEPAGE or the repoman check. >> Either we need special cases to declare it no longer has a homepage >> or we need to allow the empty HOMEPAGE. > I'd rather see "unknown" or something that implies "I looked, no luck" > rather than "I forgot to fill this in". As a user who sometimes checks the upstream site for further info, I strongly support eg 'Unknown' or 'No support site can be found'. Leaving it blank is ambiguous & might even encourage a buzy dev not to bother trying to find a changed upstream site. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca