Hi Gregor, On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:47:56AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > I've implemented this. lintian-brush will attempt to update these > > fields in debian/copyright only and remove them from > > debian/upstream/metadata. > > That means that dh-make-perl and dpt-debian-upstream should also at > least stop adding the Name and Contact fields. I think this makes > sense, we've only added them because they were in the spec and we > already had the data, but they didn't make alot of sense to me (as > duplicates from d/copyright, as you both noted). -- In fact we are > only caring about Repository* and Bug* fields (the former were the > reason why we started to use d/u/m in the first place).
Since you speak about notes to yourself: We should also think about what fields from d/u/m should be stored in UDD. Currently the bibliographic references are stored but since I had no actual use for other fields these are ignored for the moment. > I'll make these changes in the perl tools; I'm just wondering, and > that's why I'm writing a public email :), if other tools and/or other > teams use these fields as well and should be notified. Or, in other > words, I fear that having this change only in some thread on -devel > might not be enough. ACK. Thanks for that very valid point. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de