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Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute.



On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 5:18 PM Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:

> http://upstream-metadata.debian.net appears to be dead.

>From the wiki:

Help! there is a bug that I do not manage to solve by myself. -- Charles
https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2014/06/msg00022.html

> Is there a canonical documentation of useful fields for
> debian/upstream/metadata? Why do we not have examples in the Wiki?

https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata

> Is the debian upstream data now redundant/obsoleted by AppStream?

I think they serve overlapping but somewhat different purposes, for
example coreutils isn't going to have an AppStream file but upstream
metadata is useful for it.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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