Re: [oe] standardizing HOMEPAGE values in python3 recipes

["Adrian Bunk" <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 06:36:50AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   given the current flurry of python recipe cleanup, just want to
> verify a couple things that could/should be standardized.
> 
>   first, HOMEPAGE values of the form:
> 
>   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/astroid
> 
> can be adjusted to reflect the result of the redirection, as in:
> 
>   https://pypi.org/project/astroid
> 
> also, as i read it, recipe HOMEPAGE values should *not* refer to the
> pypi page, as that is already set automatically by pypi.bbclass.
> rather, the HOMEPAGE should refer to the actual source home page,
> which in the case of the astroid package would be:
> 
>   https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid
> 
> does this make sense?

When the source is on github this is supposed to be linked from PyPi.

My personal impression is that meta data like the HOMEPAGE field is 
usually poorly maintained, keeping an automatically set "good enough" 
value (the PyPi link) would IMHO be the best default option.

> rday

cu
Adrian