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Upstream metadata for native packages?



Hi,

I recently started adding debian/upstream/metadata files to my packages,
mostly documenting the basic properties such as the name of the upstream
contact, the VCS repository, any FAQs or mailing lists, and similar.
Now here's a question: should I try to do that for native packages, too?
It seems a bit weird, since most of the fields actually duplicate the
data from debian/control (e.g. Maintainer, Vcs-Git, Vcs-Browser) and
the ones that do not ought to contain some quite constant generic info
(e.g. Bug-Database may be something like https://bugs.debian.org).

So... what do people think about this - are upstream metadata files
relevant for native packages at all?

G'luck,
Peter

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