Link to homepage of a package in overview

[Shirish Agarwal]

Hi all,
 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. I looked at the changelog
"aptitude changelog netspeed" which tells me its 0.13 but nothing on the
overview page tells me whether its the same one. There is no description on
the overview page nor is there the link to the package home page. Now as a
user if I'm using/testing both netspeed as well as network monitor and no
idea what network-monitor is called.
I also did an apt-cache search network-monitor
tcpspy - Incoming and Outgoing TCP/IP connections logger

 which brings another package altogether. So until a crash & apport reports
the crash I won't come to know if netspeed is the right one or not.

 The second e.g. is of glade-gnome-3 . Now while the package is there, there
is no page for it. I searched for it
https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glade-3/+bug/112479 . Now
this confuses users, either glade-3 be one package having also the gnome
stuff or if there is glade-gnome-3 then it should have its own page. I was
actually on the glade-3 channel for over an hr. + asking him why such a
beautiful done package is not there in the repos.

 The idea again, while its not just fixing these two packages or making some
sort of resolution on them, but the more larger picture of having some kind
of policy. Perhaps have an Option so people can add a hyperlink if there is
some page. It doesn't even have to be an outside link could be with the
http://help.ubuntu.com so people can move back & forth.

 As always thoughts, suggestions, additions, refinements & brickbats to the
point raised above are welcome.

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          Shirish Agarwal
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[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

scratch the last bit, it should read as this bug report, not email :)

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Shirish, as I said on launchpad-users@, I think this is covered by bug 73116 and bug 113748. Does that seem reasonable?

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