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Follow-up story from strongloop/loopback-next#4992 (comment)

Now the fields filter only allow object, like {fields: {title: true, desc: true}}, but doesn't allow the array shortcut like {fields: ['title', 'desc']}.

We should support the array shortcut as well.

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fields: ['foo', 'bar'] is not allowed with

file_object in Updater._get_metadata_file() is left unclosed whenever an exception is raised (when the metadata fails a check of any kind). There are loads of examples in the test suite, e.g.

python3 test_updater.py TestUpdater.test_3__update_metadata

will complain "ResourceWarning: unclosed file"

This is not very dangerous but makes it hard to find actual issues in test output (

Currently the DTD is not valid for the new item-submission.xml format. https://jira.lyrasis.org/browse/DS-4264

Some packages may bundle dependencies. We could report outdatedness for these the following way: for outdated packages with single download, propagate outdated status onto the download URL. Then we could show this download specially for other packages, or even make it affect the status.