Hi Guillem,

Guillem Jover <[email protected]> writes:
> Currently there's already several possible places this information can
> be listed, adding yet another one does not help matters. There's also
> proposals around to unify upstream information in a single place,
> either
Can you point me to these proposals please?

> in a new control file or on an external place. Also adding upstream
> information to the control files seems like polluting them, as they
> only contain packaging metadata.
Well, when working on packaging, it is very useful to have this
information in a machine-readable form to automatically set up git
repositories with a proper “upstream” remote, in order to easily merge
new versions. I really consider it part of the packaging information.

-- 
Best regards,
Michael


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