#1140073 dbench: Please use secure URI in Homepage and use it in source package information

Package:
src:dbench
Source:
src:dbench
Submitter:
Andreas Tille
Date:
2026-06-15 13:03:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1140073#5
Date:
2026-06-15 13:01:28 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

d/control has

  Homepage: http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/dbench/

which rather should be

https://www.samba.org/ftp/tridge/dbench/

More problematic is the fact that it is specified in the binary package
section.  Thus the field is hidden from tools like tracker.debian.org
and others.  Please see the patch below

Kind regards
    Andreas.
--- debian/control.orig 2022-12-12 15:43:32.000000000 +0100
+++ debian/control      2026-06-15 14:59:11.853933640 +0200
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 Maintainer: Mattias Nordstrom <mnordstr@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), autoconf, libpopt-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.8.1.0
+Homepage: https://samba.org/ftp/tridge/dbench/

 Package: dbench
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Homepage: http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/dbench/
 Description: The dbench (disk) and tbench (TCP) benchmarks
  dbench and tbench simulate the load of the netbench "industry
  standard" benchmark used to rate (windows) file servers.  Unlike netbench,