Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute.

From	Xavier <yadd@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute.
Date	2019-07-25 16:30 +0200
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Hi,

pkg-js-tools embeds a tool that generates debian/upstream/metadata for Github repositories (github-missing-upstream).

dpt from pkg-perl-tools uses this file to link locally upstream repo in "git remote"



Le 25 juillet 2019 16:17:13 GMT+02:00, Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org> a écrit :
>On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:27:51 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>
>Hello Charles,
>
>> 
>> (posted on -project because of the context, but answers probably
>belong
>> to -devel, where I am not subscribed...)
>> 
>> there is an intersting discussion going on about Git and the
>preferred
>> form for modification of the programs we redistribute.
>> 
>> Indeed, as of today would be hard to say « just run “apt-get source
>> <packagename>” and voilà, you can hack and contribute back upstream
>».
>> 
>> There has been now and in the past (for instance when discussing the
>> proposed format “3.0 (Git)” for dpkg) some important points raised
>> explaining the challenge of redistributing the upstream VCS instead
>of a
>> flat file archive.
>> 
>> This is why some packges are shipping metadata indicating where to
>find
>> the upstream sources, send upstream bugs, or even where to dontate
>> money, in order to help our users contribute back to the developement
>of
>> the software that Debian is made of.
>
>Are there tools that are actively using this information?
>Unfortunately, 
>the links you quote below do not provide much information about where 
>this information is used (other than bibref table in UDD).
>
>On the other side of the coin, are there any tools that help generate 
>this metadata? For example, github-hosted projects can have their Bug-
>Database, Bug-Submit, Changelog, Repository, Repository-Browse 
>automatically derived.
>
>-- 
>Saludos,
>Felipe Sateler

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