Usage of DEP5

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi,

in a change to UpstreamMetadata in Wiki[1] Thorsten Glaser wrote:

   These fields must still be allowed, as not all packagers wish to use DEP 5.

I admit I'm astonished about this.  From my point of view DEP5 was
decided to be good packaging practice and I assumed that not changing to
DEP5 would be a matter of "not important for me to spent my time on a
DEP5 conversion".  However, I'm reading Thorstens statement as an
explicit wish to not use DEP5.  I wonder what other reasons might exist
to explicitly stick to the non-machine readable format.

I would love to see another discussion here to reach more uniformity in
Debian packaging and rise importance of DEP5 by recommending it in
Debian Policy.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata?action=diff&rev1=134&rev2=135

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