#324: Deprecate package-url field ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- The package-url field was originally supposed to be to tell users where exactly they could find the .tar.gz package for this version of the package. That was from a time before hackage and so now it is redundant because hackage provides the package url. The field is generally unused and when it is used it often just links to the darcs repo or home page. We should deprecate it and suggest people use the homepage url and the new way of specifying a source control repo (see #58). -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/324 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects