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

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Hi Chris,

> 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.

We use debian/upstream/metadata in the Perl team to easily
obtain the CPAN distribution name and the bug tracker URL,
so we can forward patches to CPAN RT or GitHub or mail them
to the upstream authors:

https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/pkg-perl-tools/dpt-forward.1.en.html

When the upstream metadata doesn't exist we try to get that
information from other places (i.e. META.*, debian/control,
debian/copyright, etc.).

For us, having upstream metadata is useful to record that
a particular contact method is preferred by upstream. Even
though there are only a handful of cases where they prefer
to be contacted by mail, those are very important to keep a
healthy relationship.

Hope this helps,
Alex

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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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