Bug#880556: parse upstream metadata files like package.json or .gemspec files

Dominique Dumont dod at debian.org
Sun Nov 5 10:49:29 UTC 2017


On Thursday, 2 November 2017 14:28:12 CET you wrote:
> Most ruby gems have the license information in .gemspec file and
> similarly most nodejs modules have this information in package.json file
> (likely for similar files for other languages). It would be good to
> parse it and use that information.

Yes, good idea. I'm thinking also to parse the content of META.yml to retrieve 
the same kind of information.

Do you have examples of one ruby and one nodejs package that could be used as 
a reference ?

Then I just need to find time to do this...

All the best

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