Hi Charles, On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > - We use it in Debian Med, and there is currently no replacement availalbe. > > - If a superior solution emerges, I am happy to use it, and I am sure > that it will be the case of the other Debian Med members.
Thanks for confirming this. I know that you already have it working and I respect the do-ocracy, that's why I didn't try to stop anyone from getting this implemented. But I truly believe that we need a better interface to collect and export such metadatas. > - Monitoring the package's VCS is a key feature: it gives ACLs for free, and > removes the need for uploading source packages. For Debian Med, all Debian > developers have write access to our VCS. I would be happy to extend this > to > all Alioth users, but it has been discouraged in the past. I know the benefits of using the VCS, but it's still a poor choice because I trust almost everybody to edit upstream metadata but I wouldn't trust everybody with commit rights to my package. Also, inspecting VCS is more heavy than say querying the PTS with a REST interface. > - The DEP is a draft, about fixing the syntax of debian/upstream. It is not > a > proposition about an implementation, because it is already implemented. > How > the data is further propagated is also out of the scope of this DEP. > (Which > does not mean that it is not important or that it should not be discussed, > of course). The fact that you need a syntax is a consequence of the choice you made to store it in a file in a VCS. Thus the DEP is a bit flawed from the start IMO. > debian/upstream concept, but in the meantime, let's avoid "chilling effects" > of > better solutions awaiting for an implementation. Certainly! Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130427142827.ga20...@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com
