Hello, As announced earlier [1], I am working on the validation of debian/upstream/metadata files (a.k.a. DEP 12) we ship with Debian packages. Recently I have noticed that many packages (~400 of ~1300 debian-med packages as of 2021-02-11) have registry entries with "NA" for names, for example [2]:
Registry: - Name: OMICtools Entry: OMICS_04455 - Name: bio.tools Entry: NA - Name: SciCrunch Entry: NA - Name: conda:lb_arrakistx Entry: varna I assume these NAs mean "not available". Maybe it would be better to exclude such entries, or replace "NA" with empty strings? Because now "NA" is a special (and undocumented) value, which may clash with legit identifiers in the registries. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2021/02/msg00058.html [2] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/varna/-/raw/3150e272290555e1f2b826c838c59ef2e1a34384/debian/upstream/metadata Best wishes, Andrius