Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute. [and 1 more messages]
- To: Alex Muntada <alexm@debian.org>, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
- Cc: debian-project@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute. [and 1 more messages]
- From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 16:59:40 +0100
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Paul Wise writes ("Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute."):
> https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata
Alex Muntada writes ("Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute."):
> We use debian/upstream/metadata in the Perl team to easily
> obtain the CPAN distribution name and the bug tracker URL,
> so we can forward patches to CPAN RT or GitHub or mail them
> to the upstream authors:
>
> https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/pkg-perl-tools/dpt-forward.1.en.html
Thanks for these links etc.
I have bounced them to the Debian bug where I requested that dgit do
something useful with this information.
Ian.
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