Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: c.buhtz@posteo.jp Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: What is this about the =?UTF-8?Q?metainfo-file=3F?= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:40:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Debian python X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Fri Jan 20 10:39:27 2023 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.5 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/20735 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/5b8164bbeda566d3987a4161dfee1907@posteo.de Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 12 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:39:05 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <5b8164bbeda566d3987a4161dfee1907@posteo.de> X-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:14853 Please let me add one additional thought. It seems easy to me to extract he meta data (via importlib.metadata) from a python project that suites to the python packaging standards (providing a pyproject.toml, setup.cfg and things like that). In that case it seems easy to have a debian-python-packaging-magic-tool on your site that will extract the data, generate a metainfo file and add it to the debian package. Kind Christian