Paul Wise wrote: > If someone revives this service, this approach missed packages that do > not use a VCS. This could be worked around by the addition of fetching > from source packages when there is no VCS. The VCS should be preferred > since source packages don't need to be updated immediately when > upstream metadata changes.
or looking at Contents-source.gz and linking to sources.debian.net. (or asking ftp-master to export these files like they do with changelogs, copyright files etc.) Are there any other consumers of these files? If there are no longer any consumers, should we really be nagging maintainers to include them? $ lintian-info --list-tags | grep upstream-metadata upstream-metadata-file-is-missing upstream-metadata-is-not-a-file upstream-metadata-yaml-invalid While the last two still make sense (if the file is there, make sure it is valid), does the first one? I've never been a fan of lintian suggesting that maintainers add a file that for most(?) packages, is not going to contain anything that is not duplicated information from elsewhere in the package. (If there are other users of this information, great...) Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7
