Announcing SailfishOS-Chum-Gui 0.3

Cool progress! Thank you.

I will have to say I find it a bit annoying that there is now yet another place to manage metadata in some almost-but-not-quite-like-the-others format.

AFAICS some random project may have bits and pieces of the the same information in various forms in

  • a .yaml file
  • a .spec file proper
  • the .spec file %description for chum
  • a .changes file
  • the OBS package name and description
  • a OBS _service file
  • a .pro file
  • some other build-specific config file (CMake, autotools etc)
  • Openrepos name, description, changelog
  • github action/gitlab ci yaml file
  • a .desktop file (esp. with sailjail)
  • QML files (e.g. About pages)
  • other source files (Qt.application.name etc)

Not a critique for your efforts at all just - you know - annoying. It’s almost as if the old spectacle-yaml-generates-stuff made some sense after all :slight_smile:

Anyway, anyone up for a patch to spectacle to generate the chum .spec metadata from .yaml?

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