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Package metadata (was: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene)

From Martin <debacle@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.project
Subject Package metadata (was: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene)
Date 2026-08-15 17:40 +0200
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Which reminds me of an old idea somebody had decades ago: Having a
metadata database (sorry for the pleonasm, if it is one) in addition to
the fields in the package itself. That way updates of maintainer,
uploader, upstream homepage, etc. would not *require* a package upload.
At least on online services, such as tracker.d.o, the updated data would
be shown. Less CO₁ btw.! Technically, data could be taken from VCS, as
long as the VCS fields don't change.

(That would not change anything Tobi wrote, regarding hygiene.)

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Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> - 2026-08-15 10:40 +0200
  Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2026-08-15 12:30 +0200
    Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2026-08-15 13:30 +0200
    Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2026-08-16 11:00 +0200
      Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2026-08-16 13:40 +0200
        Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2026-08-16 14:40 +0200
          Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2026-08-16 16:10 +0200
    Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2026-08-16 11:00 +0200
      Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com> - 2026-08-16 13:40 +0200
        Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2026-08-16 14:10 +0200
          Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> - 2026-08-16 14:40 +0200
            Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2026-08-16 15:30 +0200
            Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2026-08-16 15:30 +0200
              Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> - 2026-08-16 15:30 +0200
                Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2026-08-16 16:50 +0200
            Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2026-08-16 15:30 +0200
  Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2026-08-15 14:50 +0200
  Package metadata (was: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene) Martin <debacle@debian.org> - 2026-08-15 17:40 +0200
    Re: Package metadata (was: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene) Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2026-08-23 11:10 +0200
      Re: Package metadata Martin <debacle@debian.org> - 2026-08-23 12:00 +0200
  Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2026-08-15 21:10 +0200
  Using helper tools to mainain the Uploaders field Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2026-08-16 23:50 +0200

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