Hi, in a change to UpstreamMetadata in Wiki[1] Thorsten Glaser wrote:
These fields must still be allowed, as not all packagers wish to use DEP 5. I admit I'm astonished about this. From my point of view DEP5 was decided to be good packaging practice and I assumed that not changing to DEP5 would be a matter of "not important for me to spent my time on a DEP5 conversion". However, I'm reading Thorstens statement as an explicit wish to not use DEP5. I wonder what other reasons might exist to explicitly stick to the non-machine readable format. I would love to see another discussion here to reach more uniformity in Debian packaging and rise importance of DEP5 by recommending it in Debian Policy. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata?action=diff&rev1=134&rev2=135 -- http://fam-tille.de