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

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* Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> [190725 10:28]:
> For many of you, I am sure that it is only a reminder.  But in any case
> please have a look at https://wiki.debian.org/debian/upstream and
> https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream for details.

Someone else has asked me recently to ship a
debian/upstream/metadata file, and I now have questions:

http://upstream-metadata.debian.net appears to be dead. Are there
any easy to use tools that help validate/parse the metadata for
developers?

Is there a canonical documentation of useful fields for
debian/upstream/metadata? Why do we not have examples in the Wiki?

With the current state of the upstream metadata docs, I was about to
abandon the effort of adding metadata. It's not clear at all which
fields are useful, how a "normal" file looks like, what it contains,
...
Skimming the wiki gives me the impression its only useful for
academic citations.
Using codesearch, one will see many different formats in use, with
almost no overlapping fields. I'm not sure how any centralized data
collector should deal with this, and what they would be getting out
of it.

Is the debian upstream data now redundant/obsoleted by AppStream?

Thanks,
Chris

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Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we  redistribute. Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2019-07-25 10:30 +0200
  Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects  we redistribute. Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org> - 2019-07-25 16:20 +0200
    Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute. Xavier <yadd@debian.org> - 2019-07-25 16:30 +0200
      Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects  we redistribute. Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org> - 2019-07-25 19:10 +0200
        Bug#934062: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute. Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2019-08-06 17:50 +0200
    Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute. Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@jelmer.uk> - 2019-07-25 22:00 +0200
      Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects  we redistribute. Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org> - 2019-07-29 19:30 +0200
    Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute. Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2019-07-30 10:10 +0200
  Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects  we redistribute. Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2019-07-26 03:40 +0200
  on using the wrong mailinglists (Re: Upstream metadata to help our  users contribute back to projects we redistribute.) Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2019-07-26 18:40 +0200
  Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects  we redistribute. Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2019-07-29 11:20 +0200
    Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects  we redistribute. Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2019-07-29 13:30 +0200
      Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects  we redistribute. [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2019-08-06 18:00 +0200
    Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects  we redistribute. Alex Muntada <alexm@debian.org> - 2019-07-29 13:40 +0200

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