On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 09:46:34PM +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > I think longer term it would actually make sense to put this information in > debian/upstream/metadata rather than debian/copyright, so all upstream > metadata > is in one place - but that would obviously require a change to DEP-5 first.
Fully agreed. Once we have properly decided where to store what that's perfectly fine. In your great lintian-brush tool you have proven how easy the move can be - its just not the right time to do so. > > I'd be really happy if lintian-brush would remove those values (please > > let me know if you want me to file a bug report about this). > > I've implemented this. lintian-brush will attempt to update these > fields in debian/copyright only and remove them from debian/upstream/metadata. Thanks a lot. > Please let me know if you have any other suggestions. I'll happily do so. Thanks again, Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de