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1.A Add Homepage to Debian Policy Manual. 1.A Implement support in APT frontends.
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1.B Make lintian stop issuing "I: unknown-field-in-control homepage". 1.B Adapt developer documentation such as the Developer's Reference.
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2.A Implement support in APT frontends. 1.C Add Homepage field to dh-make templates.
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2.B Adapt developer documentation such as the Developer's Reference.
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2.C Add Homepage field to dh-make templates. 2. Make lintian stop issuing "I: unknown-field-in-control homepage".
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4. After some time, announce mass bug filing on debian-devel-announce. 4. Add Homepage to Debian Policy Manual as a suggestion.
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5. After some time, proceed to mass bug filing. 5. After some time, announce mass wishlist bug filing on debian-devel-announce.
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6. After some time, proceed to mass wishlist bug filing.

7. After even more time, change the policy manual to should

8. file yet another round of bugs, now non-wishlist.
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This page amended by Manoj Srivastava.

dpkg >= 1.14.6 supports the use of a "Homepage:" field in debian/control. This should replace the Homepage pseudo-field in extended descriptions.

Transition plan

1.A Implement support in APT frontends.

1.B Adapt developer documentation such as the Developer's Reference.

1.C Add Homepage field to dh-make templates.

2. Make lintian stop issuing "I: unknown-field-in-control homepage".

3. Make linda and lintian issue a warning to packages including a homepage in their extended description.

4. Add Homepage to Debian Policy Manual as a suggestion.

5. After some time, announce mass wishlist bug filing on debian-devel-announce.

6. After some time, proceed to mass wishlist bug filing.

7. After even more time, change the policy manual to should

8. file yet another round of bugs, now non-wishlist.

This page is based on [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/09/msg00628.html a message from Christian Perrier to debian-devel] and the resulting thread. This page amended by Manoj Srivastava.