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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