Re: PAPT git migration

[Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz>]

On 2017-06-01 09:16, Simon McVittie wrote:

    From: ...
    Date: ...
    Subject: First line of description

    More description
    more description
    yet more description

    Bug-Debian: ...
    Applied-upstream: ...
    More-DEP3-fields-in-pseudo-header: ...
    ---
     optional diffstat here

    diff --git ...
    ...

but this style (which is a DEP3 invention, and not used outside Debian and its
derivatives) is not:

    Author: ...
    Description: First line of description
     More description
     more description
     yet more description
    Bug-Debian: ...

 

So to me it looks like the required changes are:

 

* Rename Author field to From. Ensure it is first field.

* Add Date field. Set to what?

* Rename Description to Subject.

* Ensure blank line before description.

* Remove space at start of every line in description.

* Ensure blank line after description.

 

 

The Applied-upstream field looks nice to have, but maybe not essential.

 

Is this correct? Did I miss anything?

 

A tool to automate some, if not all of this, would be good.