Re: Additional fields in debian/upstream?

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 01:31:08PM +0100, Michael Hanke a écrit :
> 
> ONLY:    source package -> something
> OR ALSO: binary package -> something
> 
> Depending on such decision, we would need to look into drafting a field
> SPEC.

Hello everybody,

you are welcome to use arbitrary fields in debian/upstream; I chose YAML as the
syntax in order to make this easy.

However, I would recommend to aim at a simple structure: one field per ID, instead
 of a mapping (hash) of IDs.

As you noted, debian/upstream is not well adapted to source packages where
there is more than one upstream source.  But even the source package control
files have corner cases: when there is more than one usptream for one binary
package.  I suggest to leave the corner cases aside for the moment.

By the way, I hope to start DEP 12 (debian/upstream) this January.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles