On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 03:40:21PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > [...] I'd very strongly object to completely moving > those fields out of the source packages, because it means when you get > or have a source package lying around then it's missing important > metadata and it stops being standalone, which would require checking > somewhere online, and you might first need to infer which distro/repo > was this coming from. I'll happily take outdated data than no data any > day, because usually you can use that outdated data to trace your way > to the current one, not so if it's missing. [...] > Yes, it might be silly to have to upload a package just and only to > update that information, or having that data being permanently > out-of-date on stable. But this problem can be easily solved already, > the archive, and most (if not all!?) repo managers have had the > concept of overrides for a very long time, starting with things like > dpkg-scanpackages/dpkg-scansources! [...] Thanks, Guillem, you got my convinced by these (to me, new) arguments. -- cheers, Holger
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