Bug#934062: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute.

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Package: dgit
Version: 9.0

Felipe Sateler writes ("Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute."):
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:26:02 +0200, Xavier wrote:
> > pkg-js-tools embeds a tool that generates debian/upstream/metadata for
> > Github repositories (github-missing-upstream).
> 
> Thanks, this is useful. It's named github-debian-upstream though ;)
> 
> > dpt from pkg-perl-tools uses this file to link locally upstream repo in
> > "git remote"
> 
> This sounds cool too. Sounds more useful than for just perl packages.

Yes.  I think "dgit clone" should set up a remote for this
automatically.  (The information is useful for a lot more than
contributing back: having the upstream git history, where it can be
found, is often useful for bugfixing, etc.)

What does pkg-perl-tools call this remote ?  dgit and pkg-perl-tools
should agree.

Ian.

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