Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

[Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu@gmail.com>]

Forking the conversation to the Debian Perl list, as Damyan would know best :)

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:

* Dominique Dumont <domi.dumont@free.fr> [2015-10-25 12:30]:
> Debian uses the information from META to create and refresh Perl
> package in Debian format.
>
> More specifically, the tool used to create and refresh package
> (dh-make-perl [1]) needs META.yml to work.
>
> So, please, do not remove META.

Nobody is talking about dropping META entirely. The question is whether
a META.yml is necessary in addition to META.json.

Does dh-make-perl need META.yml specifically or can it just as well use
META.json? (I would hope it can…)

Regards,
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