Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data
Hi Andreas,
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:17:50PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I observed that lintian-brush is adding a file debian/upstream/metadata
> if it finds the fields Upstream-Name and Upstream-Contact in
> debian/copyright.
> What is the sense to duplicate data that we can find in a well
> established machine readable file in another file?
That's a good question.
I've considered (but not implemented yet) having lintian-brush not create a
debian/upstream/metadata if the only upstream metadata fields it can set are
the name and contact.
At the moment, both the debian/copyright [1] and debian/upstream/metadata [2]
standards both define two fields with (as far as I can tell) the same purpose.
Neither of the standards provide any guidance as to whether the fields
should be set in both files or whether e.g. one is preferred over the other.
It would be great if some guidance could be added to DEP-12 about how to deal
with these fields.
Cheers,
Jelmer
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
[2] https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep12/
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