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On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 1:20 AM Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> wrote:
> But Github doesn't provide the metadata. You would need to get a tarball
> and run sdist or something like that.

Right and thus I am wondering if we could work through this, somehow?
That is, $something fetches the tarball, runs sdist or whatever, and
then the py2dsp magic.

P.S. I know this sounds a little ambitious but I believe this would
really help, too.


- u