url/link to homepage of a package

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Hi shirish

On May 9, 2007, at 7:07 AM, shirish wrote:
> ...
>   There should be a link/url of a package's homepage if there is one. 
> There are times when the users are not sure due to similar named apps, 
> or due to the maintainers/packagers changing name of the package. I'm 
> going to use 2 e.g.'s to show this, netspeed and glade-gnome-3 .
>  While I'm pretty sure that 
> https://beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netspeed/ is the same 
> netspeed as given at http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/netspeed/ 
> there is no way to know for sure.
> ...

That's a good point. I think we can solve this by:

*   Showing the description of the most recent versions of each binary
     package, produced by that source package, on the source package
     page. I reported this as a bug a few months ago.
     <https://launchpad.net/bugs/73116> For example,
     <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netspeed/0.13-1ubuntu1> shows
     netspeed's binary package description, which already includes the
     netspeed home page URL.

*   Auto-linking the URLs in package descriptions. I've just reported
     this. <https://launchpad.net/bugs/113748>

*   Reporting a bug whenever you come across a non-trivial binary
     package description that doesn't include the URL of the relevant
     project. That will be helpful in other places too (like Synaptic),
     not just Launchpad.

Thanks for raising this issue.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
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