[2013-08-01 18:02:38 +0200] Karol Blazewicz:
The same upstream url can be used by many packages and standardizing would make it a bit easier to find which packages need to have the upstream url updated.
That is just not feasible. As you noticed yourself: sometimes, a www prefix and/or slash suffix to a URL are required, sometimes not. Certain upstream projects have several websites; others use a language different from English on their main page, but have an English subpage available (what page would you link to then?), etc.
I don't know if maintainers should write package descriptions or should they just take them from upstream, but IMHO e.g. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/kdeplasma-addons-wallpapers-vi... : 'Description: Virus' has to go.
For this and everything else that follows, please open separate bug reports or feature requests in our tracker - except for:
Some language-related packages use the same description for all of them e.g. xpdf-korean - Encoding information to use specific character sets in Xpdf; does not include fonts vim-spell-af - Language files for Vim spell checking
That's fine to me (obviously, I maintain them): they're split packages that all do the same thing and I do not think the redundant description causes any confusion of what package is meant for what language...
Should language files always have a description that says which language do they represent or are package names enough?
Just calm down. Anything that makes sense is fine. :) -- Gaetan