Re: Redundant fields in debian/upstream/metadata and possible lintian check

2018-05-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Charles, On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 04:46:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > thans for raising the issue. In brief, there have been unsuccessful > experiments, but I think that we should let people experiment. Sure. May be without this experiment we would not yet have an established way for sc

Re: Redundant fields in debian/upstream/metadata and possible lintian check

2018-05-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Andreas, thans for raising the issue. In brief, there have been unsuccessful experiments, but I think that we should let people experiment. Le Wed, May 23, 2018 at 03:39:44PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > at least in scientific packages the file debian/upstream/metadata is > frequently

Re: Redundant fields in debian/upstream/metadata and possible lintian check

2018-05-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Dylan, On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 01:25:50PM +0200, Dylan Aïssi wrote: > 2018-05-23 15:39 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille : > > These data are gathered in UDD[2]. When I inspected the log of the UDD > > importer I noticed that there are a lot of redundant fields like > > "Homepage" or "Watch" where we ag

Re: Redundant fields in debian/upstream/metadata and possible lintian check

2018-05-24 Thread Dylan Aïssi
Hi, 2018-05-23 15:39 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille : > These data are gathered in UDD[2]. When I inspected the log of the UDD > importer I noticed that there are a lot of redundant fields like > "Homepage" or "Watch" where we agreed that these fields should not be > duplicated in upstream/metadata. Th