Re: To Jelmer Vernooij
> Does that work? I guess we could try extracting the authors
> (committers?) into a proper json structure if that helps.
>
> Helmut was approaching me about extracting even more fields from git,
> Maintainer, Uploaders, Homepage, updated Vcs info, debian/watch, and
> expose that for an easier feedback into the packages file without
> requiring new uploads. That will likely happen shortly. (Mentioning
> that here since it seems similar.)
Fwiw, that has happened at DebConf, there is now new fields
"controlfile" and "upstream_metadata" in the json:
{
"browser": "https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kanyremote";,
"vcslog": "commit 2461c1171fc9103e2fd9ec946208fe5e1bc2deb7\nAuthor: Philipp
Huebner <debala...@debian.org>\n
Date: Sat May 28 00:32:06 2022 +0200\n\n Updated years in
debian/copyright\n\ncommit a72ff16979f78545d0eb83
09370e47782536e4fd\nAuthor: Debian Janitor <jani...@jelmer.uk>\nDate: Fri Sep
24 05:04:54 2021 +0000\n\n Re
move obsolete field Name from debian/upstream/metadata (already present in
machine-readable debian/copyright).\n
\n Changes-By: lintian-brush\n\ncommit
77bcda14a9bc556ecc7d5029ddf82282ff0c3303\nAuthor: Debian Janitor <
jani...@jelmer.uk>\nDate: Fri Sep 24 05:04:43 2021 +0000\n\n Trim trailing
whitespace.\n \n Changes-B
y: lintian-brush\n Fixes: lintian: trailing-whitespace\n See-also:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/trailin
g-whitespace.html",
"ci_url": "https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kanyremote/-/pipelines";,
"last_scan": "2022-08-04 18:18:12+00",
"issues": null,
"url": "https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kanyremote.git";,
"valid_checkout": 1,
"changelog_version": "8.1-1.2",
"watchfile":
"version=4\nhttps://sf.net/anyremote/kanyremote-(.*)\\.tar\\.gz",
"package": "kanyremote",
"changelog_distribution": "UNRELEASED",
"branch": "master",
"merge_requests": 1,
"vcs": "Git",
"dumb_http": null,
"controlfile": "Source: kanyremote\nSection: kde\nPriority:
optional\nMaintainer: Philipp Huebner <debalance
@debian.org>\nBuild-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-python,
python3-all\nStandards-Version: 4.5.1\nRules-Re
quires-Root: no\nHomepage: http://anyremote.sourceforge.net\nVcs-Git:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kanyremote
.git\nVcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kanyremote\n\nPackage:
kanyremote\nArchitecture: all\nDepends
: ${misc:Depends},\n ${python3:Depends},\n anyremote (>=
6.7),\n python3-bluez (>= 0.9.1
),\n python3-pyqt5\nRecommends: bluez\nDescription: KDE frontend for
anyRemote\n kAnyRemote package is K
DE GUI frontend for anyRemote.\n (http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/). The
overall goal of this project is to\n p
rovide remote control service on Linux through Bluetooth, InfraRed, Wi-Fi\n or
TCP/IP connection.",
"edited_at": null,
"edited_by": null,
"hash": "2461c1171fc9103e2fd9ec946208fe5e1bc2deb7",
"debian_dir": 1,
"changelog": "kanyremote (8.1-1.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium\n\n * Trim
trailing whitespace.\n * Remove o
bsolete field Name from debian/upstream/metadata (already present in\n
machine-readable debian/copyright).\n\
n -- Debian Janitor <jani...@jelmer.uk> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 05:04:43 -0000",
"next_scan": "2022-08-12 12:11:00+00",
"commits": 3,
"package_version": "8.1-1.1",
"ci_status": null,
"status": "NEW",
"upstream_metadata": "Bug-Database:
https://sourceforge.net/p/anyremote/discussion/\nBug-Submit:
https://sourceforge.net/p/anyremote/discussion/\nChangelog:
https://sourceforge.net/p/anyremote/code/HEAD/tree/kanyremote/trunk/ChangeLog\nRepository:
svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/anyremote/code/kanyremote/trunk\nRepository-Browse:
https://sourceforge.net/p/anyremote/code/HEAD/tree/kanyremote/\nRegistration:
https://sourceforge.net/user/registration\nContact:
anyrem...@mail.ru\nDocumentation:
http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/docs.html\nFAQ:
http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/faq.html";,
"avatar":
"https://salsa.debian.org/uploads/-/system/project/avatar/1272/anyremote.png";,
"tag": "debian/8.1-1.1",
"error": null
},
Christoph
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