On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:46:34 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: Hi Andreas and Jelmer,
I agree with everything you've said (and changed in the d/u/m spec and in lintian-brush), thank you. Just one remark, partly a note to self: > > The idea that lintian is warning about those fields missing in > > d/u/metadata is not sensible, neither that some tool adds the values. > > It was some Wiki edit away[4] to ensure you about this that this stuff > > is really in flux and its better to not waste time on this without > > discussing it first. > > > > I'd be really happy if lintian-brush would remove those values (please > > let me know if you want me to file a bug report about this). > > I've implemented this. lintian-brush will attempt to update these > fields in debian/copyright only and remove them from debian/upstream/metadata. That means that dh-make-perl and dpt-debian-upstream should also at least stop adding the Name and Contact fields. I think this makes sense, we've only added them because they were in the spec and we already had the data, but they didn't make alot of sense to me (as duplicates from d/copyright, as you both noted). -- In fact we are only caring about Repository* and Bug* fields (the former were the reason why we started to use d/u/m in the first place). I'll make these changes in the perl tools; I'm just wondering, and that's why I'm writing a public email :), if other tools and/or other teams use these fields as well and should be notified. Or, in other words, I fear that having this change only in some thread on -devel might not be enough. Cheers, gregor, cc'ing the perl list as a start -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Rolling Stones: Everlasting
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