Remove name and version from opam files before publication?

[dsheets]

opam package files in directory repositories get their name and version from the directory structure rather than the metadata file. opam files in package development repositories use these fields to make pinning easier. There is a gestating policy to have name and version removed in opam files submitted to ocaml/opam-repository. It would be nice to have these fields automatically removed by opam publish.

[dbuenzli]

This idea doesn't seem to take into account the signing stuff (@hannesm). Rather I would argue that tooling like opam-publish should automatically add these so that the versions we have in the repositories don't get out of sync.

[hannesm]

I think while people shouldn't be bothered with manually inserting version numbers and names, opam files should actually contain these (by using some automation, such as opam publish). this would also simplify opam to only have to take a single metadata file into account, and not trying to inferring implicit information from path structures...

[dra27]

Cross-referencing ocaml/opam#2320 (comment)

[grayswandyr]

Hi

regarding this discussion, it seems that opam lint and opam publish do not handle the presence (or not) of these fields in the same way. I don't know how and where it should be addressed, but this is very misleading for beginners.
Thank you.

[rjbou]

Fixed in current version. Thanks!

@grayswandyr opam lint do some checks, but not all from what is required by opam repository. Linting is more here to ensure that your opam file is well formed, than make it opam repository compatible. cf. #101