Bug#986907: dh-make-perl: use rt.cpan.org as default bugtracker for CPAN

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi,

On 2021-04-14 19:02, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:06:19 +0300, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> 
>> CPAN's default bugtracker is rt.cpan.org. Therefore, it would be nice to
>> have Bug-Database and Bug-Submit fields of debian/upstream/metadata
>> auto-filled in with appropriate default values for CPAN packages:
>>
>> Bug-Database: https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=$PKG
>> Bug-Submit: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Create.html?Queue=$PKG
> 
> [$PKG -> $CPAN_Distribution]

Right, that's what I meant, thanks for correction.

> I'm not sure this makes sense. Here's my quick train of thought:
> 
> I know of 3 producers of debian/upstream/metadata: our own
> dh-make-perl and dpt-debian-pstream, plus lintian-brush (run manually
> or via the janitor). I think all of them do basically the same: Add
> Bug-* entries if this information is present in META.yml or
> META.json, plus some guesswork to add GitHub issues if there is no
> bugtracker information but a GutHub repo.
> 
> Then I know of one consumer of debian/upstream/metadata: dpt-forward,
> which already uses CPAN RT as a default value if it doesn't find a
> better info anywhere else (in META.* or debian/upstream/metadata).

UltimateDebianDatabase also seems to ingest debian/upstream/metadata to
its tables, but I haven't checked how they look there. Also I am not
aware of services using the UDD.

> I'm not opposed to adding "Bug-*: CPAN RT" to
> debian/upstream/metadata in both dpt-debian-upstream and dh-make-perl
> for cases where there is no explicit bugtracker in META.* and there
> is no upstream repo on GitHub; but the result at least for my use and
> the consumers I know would just be that dpt-forward does the same as
> it does now: use CPAN RT for forwarding bug reports/patches.
> 
> But it's of course possible that there are other consumers or other
> use cases where this would help.

I agree. Most likely this would not add much benefit.

Best,
Andrius