On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:51:02PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> My point, rather, is that a bunch of the stuff that's being discussed as
> relevant to debian/upstream can change independent of any functional
> change in the package, and therefore the proposal raises the question of
> whether we wa
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
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
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
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
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
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
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013, Paul Wise 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"). However, this approach is hard to extend to other
> > information
> > descri
The idea in general (providing more metadata about our upstreams) is a good one.
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
> ("ups
Dear all,
I am starting the Debian Enahncement Proposal (DEP) number 12 together with
Andreas Tille who kindly accepted to co-drive this work.
For general information about DEPs, please see http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/
The puropose of this proposal is to store in source packages some metadat
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