Package: debmake Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear maintainer,
The field Upstream-Contact is part of the DEP-5 specification as an optional field. Its meaning is to hold information on how to reach upstream. It is wildly use in Debian packages. A grep in all sources packages for buster gives the following results: Total: 26474 DEP5: 22947 Upstream-Contact: 13364 As part of my work for mentors.debian.net, we recently implemented an auto-completion feature for RFS template using this field to extract the Upstream author. It would be a big help if tools such as dh-make or debmake could add Upstream-Contact to the default license template so that new packages benefit from this info. You will find attached a patch adding this field. I hope you can integrate it in the next version. Best, -- Baptiste BEAUPLAT - lyknode
diff --git a/debmake/copyright.py b/debmake/copyright.py
index bca2764..28b3c24 100755
--- a/debmake/copyright.py
+++ b/debmake/copyright.py
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ def copyright(package_name, license_file_masks, cdata, xml_html_files, binary_fi
text = '''\
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: {}
+Upstream-Contact: <preferred name and address to reach the upstream project>
Source: <url://example.com>
'''.format(package_name)
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