Re: DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream

2013-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Of course, the other issue that this DEP raises is how much sense it >> makes to put all this stuff in the source package, either in >> debian/control or in a new file, given that most of these fields (even >> including M

Re: DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream

2013-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Of course, the other issue that this DEP raises is how much sense it makes > to put all this stuff in the source package, either in debian/control or > in a new file, given that most of these fields (even including Maintainer, > although movin

Re: DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream

2013-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > I guess we could have a discussion about the possibility/advantages of > having one index file (ex. Packages) containing exclusively machine > consumable metadata (for package managers), to favour small/embedded > systems, and another one wit

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Re: DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream

2013-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Enrico Zini writes: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:57:56PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >> option. The first fields that come to mind could be Homepage, >> Maintainer and Description (and for the latter this has already happened >> somewhat). But then this does not require a split in the source form

Re: DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream

2013-01-03 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:57:56PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > option. The first fields that come to mind could be Homepage, > Maintainer and Description (and for the latter this has already happened > somewhat). But then this does not require a split in the source format, > but only in the arch

Re: DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream

2013-01-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 10:29:13 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > The source package control files and some of their derivatives are > > currently > > used to document the URL of the home page of the work that is packaged > > ("upstream"). Howev