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

From	Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute.
Date	2019-07-29 19:30 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 3:34 PM Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@jelmer.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On 25 July 2019 15:17:13 GMT+01:00, Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>
> wrote:
> >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.
>
> lintian-brush (https://packages.debian.org/intuan-brush) can update
> debian/upstream/metadata from various kinds of upstream-bundled files like
> dist.ini, META.json, doap (used by GNOME) or setup.py.
>
>
Thanks, this tool looks very useful, and not only for upstream/metadata.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

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