Package Metadata

Definitions

1. The descriptive information attached to a package, such as name, version, dependencies, license, homepage, and compatibility constraints. In tooling culture, package metadata is what lets automation reason about packages without reading the whole source tree.

   In plain English: The descriptive information attached to a software package.

   Example: "The package metadata was incomplete enough that downstream tools could not tell which Python versions were actually supported."

Related Terms

• uv Package Manager
• APT Package
• Package Resolution
• Package Script
• Package Spec
• Package Validate
• pip Install
• Pkg
• Swift Package