Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data

2019-08-22 Thread Andreas Tille
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

Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data

2019-08-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 09:46:34PM +, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > I think longer term it would actually make sense to put this information in > debian/upstream/metadata rather than debian/copyright, so all upstream > metadata > is in one place - but that would obviously require a change to

Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data

2019-08-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:46:34 +, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: Hi Andreas and Jelmer, I agree with everything you've said (and changed in the d/u/m spec and in lintian-brush), thank you. Just one remark, partly a note to self: > > The idea that lintian is warning about those fields missing in > >

Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data

2019-08-22 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Hi Andreas, On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 08:47:51AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:46:23PM +, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:17:50PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I observed that lintian-brush is adding a file debian/upstream/metadata > > >

Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data

2019-08-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 05:47:24PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:48 PM Andreas Tille wrote: > > > DEP-12 is declared as "Work in progress" (without any progress since 5 > > years) while DEP-5 is well established and decided. Charles and I > > invented d/u/metadata to store

Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data

2019-08-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:48 PM Andreas Tille wrote: > DEP-12 is declared as "Work in progress" (without any progress since 5 > years) while DEP-5 is well established and decided. Charles and I > invented d/u/metadata to store publication information and it turned out > that there is other

Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data

2019-08-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Jelmer, On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:46:23PM +, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:17:50PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I observed that lintian-brush is adding a file debian/upstream/metadata > > if it finds the fields Upstream-Name and Upstream-Contact in > >

Re: lintian-brush adds redundant data

2019-08-20 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Hi Andreas, On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:17:50PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I observed that lintian-brush is adding a file debian/upstream/metadata > if it finds the fields Upstream-Name and Upstream-Contact in > debian/copyright. > What is the sense to duplicate data that we can find in a well

lintian-brush adds redundant data

2019-08-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I observed that lintian-brush is adding a file debian/upstream/metadata if it finds the fields Upstream-Name and Upstream-Contact in debian/copyright. What is the sense to duplicate data that we can find in a well established machine readable file in another file? Kind regards