Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 09:46:34PM +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
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> I think longer term it would actually make sense to put this information in
> debian/upstream/metadata rather than debian/copyright, so all upstream metadata
> is in one place - but that would obviously require a change to DEP-5 first.
Fully agreed. Once we have properly decided where to store what that's
perfectly fine. In your great lintian-brush tool you have proven how
easy the move can be - its just not the right time to do so.
> > I'd be really happy if lintian-brush would remove those values (please
> > let me know if you want me to file a bug report about this).
>
> I've implemented this. lintian-brush will attempt to update these
> fields in debian/copyright only and remove them from debian/upstream/metadata.
Thanks a lot.
> Please let me know if you have any other suggestions.
I'll happily do so.
Thanks again, Andreas.
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