On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:09:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > gregor herrmann <[email protected]> writes:
> > I remember CPAN maintainers (sic!) being interested in the status of > > their modules in Debian. Without a Maintainer (or whatever) field in > > d/copyright (or somewhere else but I don't know a better place) we are > > not able to provide a mapping for that. > I can definitely see the desire for this metadata, but it feels to me like > it would be better tracked in a separate file, such as Charles's proposed > upstream metadata file. In current practice, many maintainers include such information in debian/copyright. As long as this is the case, I think the format should provide for that in a more structured manner than a 'Comment' field allows. These fields are already marked as optional; if policy later dictates that this information shouldn't live in debian/copyright, we can always phase them out. Do you see any harm in this? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
