app-mobilephone/smssend/smssend-3.4.ebuild has an invalid homepage entry, which is counted as 2 separate home pages (e.g. in packages.gentoo.org): HOMEPAGE="None available" # was http://zekiller.skytech.org/smssend_menu_en.html
Actually that's quite valid - bash syntax and indeed ebuild syntax allows for comments at the ends of lines, including those that assign variables... The only limitation appears to be that it's a raw string that doesn't need variable expansion[1]. Let's see what infra has to say about this. (If this is the only ebuild that does this, we can still drop it in the package maintainer's lap - there's a case to be made that HOMEPAGE should be a valid URL.) [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html: "Package's homepage. If you are unable to locate an official one, try to provide a link to freshmeat.net or a similar package tracking site. Never refer to a variable name in the string; include only raw text."
The ebuild should have zero or more valid URLs, separated with whitespace (Whitespace within a URL should be URL-escaped). That used to be documented somewhere, the maintainer needs to fix.
From PMS: \item[HOMEPAGE] The URI or URIs for a package's homepage, including protocols. May be defined by an eclass. See section~\ref{dependencies} for full syntax.
Thanks, infra.
I'm lost. What exactly you guys want me to do? As Jeroen said in comment 1, this is valid bash syntax. For the record, I've commented the previous homepage in case it becomes alive again.
What value do you want me to assign to HOMEPAGE when no such page is available? repoman does not allow me to set it to empty string. There are more packages that use "None available" as value for HOMEPAGE: app-mobilephone/smssend/smssend dev-libs/skyutils/skyutils net-libs/roadrunner/roadrunner
(In reply to comment #6) > What value do you want me to assign to HOMEPAGE when no such page is available? > repoman does not allow me to set it to empty string. > > There are more packages that use "None available" as value for HOMEPAGE: > app-mobilephone/smssend/smssend > dev-libs/skyutils/skyutils > net-libs/roadrunner/roadrunner > I'm not a developer, but how about this: HOMEPAGE="http://zekiller.skytech.org/smssend_menu_en.html http://www.barsnick.net/sw/smssend.html"
We're supposed to remove dead homepages and the other homepage is 5 years old. Anyway, the question remains. We should have a N/A value for HOMEPAGE and packages.g.o should correctly interpret such value.
I'm happy with calling this a bug in the ebuild, it certainly is unlikely to be fixed in p.g.o. -A
