Re: New update fields for cme dpkg

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On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:40:32 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:

>Currently, I've added the possibility to retrieve homepage and repo=20
>url information from upstream files like META.yml. (ok, this is not=20
>huge, but it's a start).

Nice idea!

>Please tell me if this useful.

I like all kinds of automatisations and other help to speed up=20
packaging work. In this case, however, I have some doubts, if copying=20
the values from META.* or friends unchanged is really a good idea.

If you look into dpt-debian-upstream -- ehm, actually=20
Debian::Upstream::Metadata::Perl (bin: libdebian-source-perl, src:=20
dh-make-perl) -- we can see that the authors (mostly alexm) put in=20
quite some effort to fix/cleanup the URLs that are found in the=20
metadata files of perl distributions (like: no ssh://, no git://,=20
https:// instead of http:// if possible etc., handling Repository vs.=20
Repository-Browse). All these fixups have been added and refined=20
over time because of examples seen in the wild =E2=80=A6

Maybe the upstream situation has improved by now but I fear that=20
creating/updating d/u/metadata by running `cme update=20
dpkg-upstream-metadata' would generate buggy entries or overwrite=20
correct ones generated by=20
dpt-debian-upstream/Debian::Upstream::Metadata::Perl.


Cheers,
gregor

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