On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 3:34 PM Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 25 July 2019 15:17:13 GMT+01:00, Felipe Sateler <[email protected]> > wrote: > >On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:27:51 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > >> Hello everybody, > > > >Hello Charles, > > > >> > >> (posted on -project because of the context, but answers probably > >belong > >> to -devel, where I am not subscribed...) > >> > >> there is an intersting discussion going on about Git and the > >preferred > >> form for modification of the programs we redistribute. > >> > >> Indeed, as of today would be hard to say « just run “apt-get source > >> <packagename>” and voilà, you can hack and contribute back upstream > >». > >> > >> There has been now and in the past (for instance when discussing the > >> proposed format “3.0 (Git)” for dpkg) some important points raised > >> explaining the challenge of redistributing the upstream VCS instead > >of a > >> flat file archive. > >> > >> This is why some packges are shipping metadata indicating where to > >find > >> the upstream sources, send upstream bugs, or even where to dontate > >> money, in order to help our users contribute back to the developement > >of > >> the software that Debian is made of. > > > >Are there tools that are actively using this information? > >Unfortunately, > >the links you quote below do not provide much information about where > >this information is used (other than bibref table in UDD). > > > >On the other side of the coin, are there any tools that help generate > >this metadata? For example, github-hosted projects can have their Bug- > >Database, Bug-Submit, Changelog, Repository, Repository-Browse > >automatically derived. > > lintian-brush (https://packages.debian.org/intuan-brush) can update > debian/upstream/metadata from various kinds of upstream-bundled files like > dist.ini, META.json, doap (used by GNOME) or setup.py. > > Thanks, this tool looks very useful, and not only for upstream/metadata. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
