Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 05:47:24PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:48 PM Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > DEP-12 is declared as "Work in progress" (without any progress since 5
> > years) while DEP-5 is well established and decided. Charles and I
> > invented d/u/metadata to store publication information and it turned out
> > that there is other sensible information about upstream that can be
> > stored there as well. I'd vote against any duplication of information
> > in any way. So as long as Name and Contact are defined in DEP-5 it
> > should not be in DEP-12.
>
> These fields seem like they belong in DEP-12 more than DEP-5.
Finally that's a matter of taste where the fields belong to. As long as
there is no decision including a change of DEP-5 and a finalised DEP-12
I'd consider any change as its currently done as premature.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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