control: retitle -1 Include upstream metadata spec in Policy control: tag -1 +moreinfo
Hello, On Thu 26 Jul 2018 at 09:21AM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > However, I'm not very keen on the extra work that would be required to > transfer that wiki page into policy as opposed to specifying an extra > field. > > Do you agree that policy should recommend such a location and is the > path to this recommendation, in your opinion, a ratification of the > UpstreamMetadata page or something like it? No-one needs to do that extra work anytime soon. Policy lags best practices. The fact that debian/upstream/metadata is already being used to store a URI to the upstream repository for a large number of packages counts as standardisation, in Debian Policy terms. You can refer to it in tools that you write. We should eventually move the upstream metadata spec into Policy. I'm retitling the bug, but also tagging it as moreinfo. The moreinfo tag is used to indicate that it is not clear that the bug against debian-policy is actionable. What is currently unclear is whether the upstream metadata spec is sufficiently mature to go into Policy. We need to hear from those involved with that spec that it's sufficiently mature to go into Policy. If it's sufficiently mature, such that all that's needed is writing a patch to Policy, we can remove the moreinfo tag and leave the bug open, awaiting someone driving its inclusion in Policy. If the spec is not ready to go into Policy, then there is no Policy work to be done, and we should close the bug. -- Sean Whitton
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