[arch-general] More urls in PKGBUILD or on package details page

Ray Rashif schiv at archlinux.org
Mon Aug 8 14:42:22 EDT 2011


On 9 August 2011 02:27, Sergej Pupykin <ml at sergej.pp.ru> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> what if we add somehow direct links to "report upstream bug" and may be link
> for easier checking new version (RSS link, sf.net/project/..., another
> download page or something else)?
>
> I think direct link to upstream bugtracker should be usefull.

I agree. But how is it going to be implemented? It does require some
manual work, as in you can't dynamically, say, parse it from the main
URL, obviously. So the only way I see this being workable is to add
another (non-makepkg; with a leading underscore) variable or two (for
RSS). Can be implemented in AUR as well.


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