Errors in Package Homepage entries

Thomas Koch thomas at koch.ro
Tue Nov 13 16:00:36 UTC 2012


Simon Kainz:
> Hi!
> 
> I know, this should normally be filed as a bug, but would result in
> some kind of mass bug filing which I think can be avoided.
> 
> Please take a look at
> 
> http://duck.debian.net/index.php?maintainer=pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alio
> th.debian.org
> 
> There are currently ~100 packages with broken ord wrong Homepage
> entries - most of them seem to got currupted on some kind of server
> restructuring, eg.
> 
> https://tablelayout.dev.java.net/ (whic his broken) vs.
> http://java.net/projects/TableLayout (which works) - the same for e.g
> SwingX.
> 
> If it's better to file bugs against the packages to not break to usual
> workflow i'll glady do, but I think it might be easyier/less fuzz this
> way.

Forward to Debian-Java

Hi Simon,

I'd prefer a minor bug against each package. The next time somebody updates 
the package, he/she will also scan the bugs list and not forget to update the 
homepage field.

Regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro



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