Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#904608: Support specifying upstream VCS location in debian/control"): > No-one needs to do that extra work anytime soon. Policy lags best > practices. The fact that debian/upstream/metadata is already being used > to store a URI to the upstream repository for a large number of packages > counts as standardisation, in Debian Policy terms. You can refer to it > in tools that you write.
YAML is utterly awful. The spec is gigantic. We should not perpetuate it. Ian.