On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:38:32 +0100
Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote:
> * Dominique Dumont <domi.dum...@free.fr> [2015-10-25 12:30]:
> > Debian uses the information from META to create and refresh Perl
> > package in Debian format.
> >
> > More specifically, the tool used to create and refresh package
> > (dh-make-perl [1]) needs META.yml to work.
> >
> > So, please, do not remove META.
>
> Nobody is talking about dropping META entirely. The question is
> whether a META.yml is necessary in addition to META.json.
>
> Does dh-make-perl need META.yml specifically or can it just as well
> use META.json? (I would hope it can…)
>
> Regards,
If it's not a requirement, then people are going to get sloppy with it,
meaning sometimes it will break other people's code.
--
Don't stop where the ink does.
Shawn
