Package: lintian-brush
Version: 0.44
Severity: wishlist
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Going throught the merge requests for perl packages, I noticed some
issues around the handling of debian/upstream/metadata:
- - The perl YAML libraries we use add "---\n" at the top of the file,
which the used Python libraries in lintian-brush apparently don't
do. No idea what is more correct or if it matters at all; I just
noted that the removal of the line adds some noise.
- - Sometimes when Contact and Name are removed, all that's left in our
files is "Archive: CPAN" which is no so helpful. In those cases I
just removed debian/upstream/metadata completely. Not sure if lintian-brush
should do the same or if I should stop removing it or something
else :)
- - Similarly, if lintian-brush creates debian/upstream/metadata for a
perl package, it might add "Archive: CPAN" (not that we use it but
the Archive field exists …).
- - The URLs lintian-brush finds in META.{json,yml} sometimes have room
for improvement; in our tools [0] we e.g. fix github URLs to use
https etc. It would be nice if lintian-brush could also learn some
of these tricks.
Cheers,
gregor
[0]
https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/dh-make-perl/blob/master/lib/DhMakePerl/Command/Packaging.pm#L1636
https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/pkg-perl-tools/blob/master/scripts/debian-upstream#L30
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