Hi Guillem and Russ, indeed when exploring the use of debian/upstream, we went through the steps you discussed in this thread.
Fisrst, I proposed to make equivalent the following entry: Foo: Bar: baz and Foo-Bar: baz It turned out to generate confusion. More importantly, in the context of bibliographic references, which is still the lead consumer for debian/upstream files, this did not allow to store a list of references. Also, I could not motivate others to support the Foo-Bar equivalence. We therefore deprecated the feature. http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata#Hyphen_shortcut_for_mappings This is one of the reasons why I started DEP 12: on one hand, it looks like we need the complexity of YAML, but on the other hand, if we build too complex structures, nobody will use them. Therefore, I would like to have feedback on the way we store information in the debian/upstream files (more on this in another thread). Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130127021108.gb27...@falafel.plessy.net