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Re: New update fields for cme dpkg

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On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:40:32 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:

>Currently, I've added the possibility to retrieve homepage and repo 
>url information from upstream files like META.yml. (ok, this is not 
>huge, but it's a start).

Nice idea!

>Please tell me if this useful.

I like all kinds of automatisations and other help to speed up 
packaging work. In this case, however, I have some doubts, if copying 
the values from META.* or friends unchanged is really a good idea.

If you look into dpt-debian-upstream -- ehm, actually 
Debian::Upstream::Metadata::Perl (bin: libdebian-source-perl, src: 
dh-make-perl) -- we can see that the authors (mostly alexm) put in 
quite some effort to fix/cleanup the URLs that are found in the 
metadata files of perl distributions (like: no ssh://, no git://, 
https:// instead of http:// if possible etc., handling Repository vs. 
Repository-Browse). All these fixups have been added and refined 
over time because of examples seen in the wild …

Maybe the upstream situation has improved by now but I fear that 
creating/updating d/u/metadata by running `cme update 
dpkg-upstream-metadata' would generate buggy entries or overwrite 
correct ones generated by 
dpt-debian-upstream/Debian::Upstream::Metadata::Perl.


Cheers,
gregor

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New update fields for cme dpkg Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2026-03-25 19:50 +0100
  Re: New update fields for cme dpkg gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2026-03-25 21:40 +0100
    Re: New update fields for cme dpkg Dominique Dumont <domi.dumont@free.fr> - 2026-04-04 15:10 +0200
      Re: New update fields for cme dpkg gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2026-04-04 15:40 +0200

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