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

From Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.project
Subject Re: Package metadata (was: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene)
Date 2026-08-23 11:10 +0200
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Le Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 03:03:48PM +0000, Martin a écrit :
>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.

Hi Martin,

Maybe this one?

https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata#Upstream_MEtadata_GAthered_with_YAml_.28UMEGAYA.29

I vividly remember when I had the idea on my bicycle.  It felt so good.

Have a nice week-end,

Charles

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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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