Hello,

On Wed 14 May 2025 at 11:29am +02, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel <frederic-emmanuel.pi...@synchrotron-soleil.fr>
> writes:
>
>>> There is the Source field in d/copyright where you can put a git remote
>>> URL.  Maybe that usage should go into DEP-14 ?
>>
>> So we have upstream informations in
>>
>> d/copyright
>> d/control (git url of our VCS).
>> d/watch (in git mode)
>> d/upstream/metadata (what for ?). maybe we should standardize on this one.
>> d/gbp.conf
>>
>> other files ?
>
> Indeed this is a mess.  (I wouldn't count d/control Vcs-* though?)
>
> Has there been any work towards a single-file declarative file syntax to
> generate all the debian/ files?
>
> Except for debian/patches/ and debian/tests/ I think this could work.
> Compare rpm's *.spec or Homebrew files.

Would we really want that?  I've never understood the attraction.  It's
more than metadata.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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