Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011, Russ Allbery wrote:
> So I can still see the point of somewhere adding a pointer to the upstream
> VCS repository.
>
> However, is the control file really the right place for that? I guess we
> don't have a better place right now, but this doesn't feel like package
> metadata that needs to be put into the Sources file.
+1
And I'm not really keen on recognizing more Vcs-* fields in debian/control
as far as dpkg-dev is concerned.
There are lots of upstream-metadata that we might want to have available
and we need to find a proper solution that doesn't involve debian/control.
It should be outside of the package and probably shared accross
all Linux distributions. It seems to me to be a good extension of the work
done/planned on the cross-distribution app-store.
http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream/Implementation
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