On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:05:35 -0500, James McCoy wrote: > > This seems to conflict with the debian/upstream file, as decribed in > > https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep12/ > I think it was an unfortunate choice for DEP-12 to claim the > debian/upstream name as a file instead of transitioning from > debian/upstream-metadata.yml to debian/upstream/…. I hadn't heard about > this file until you mentioned, but I had multiple people make the > suggestion of placing the signing key under debian/upstream/ and some > suggest that it would be nice to move the watch file there.
Ack, debian/upstream as a file is probably not the best solution; something like debian/upstream/metadata might fit in nicely in the scheme. > There are existing source packages, although only 9 from my quick > search, using debian/upstream/ already, which may or may not be in > conflict with claiming debian/upstream/ as a place to keep “interesting” > information about the upstream project. And 4 more on my harddisk, not yet uploaded :) > I realize this is a far cry from the ~280 source packages using > debian/upstream as a file, however, I think it makes more sense to have > debian/upstream/ (directory) rather than debian/upstream (file). Agreed. I just wanted to point out the collision, not saying that the debian/upstream/ is a bad idea. > That > allows for the possibility of placing other content under the namespace > instead of solely what fits into the metadata that DEP-12 describes. Right. > My inclination is to mark this wontfix and offer some cycles to help > transition DEP-12 related stuff to something that's compatible with > devscripts' changes. Sounds good from my POV. Cc'ing Charles as "Monsieur UpstreamMetadata". Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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