diff --git a/scripts/metadata.pl b/scripts/metadata.pl
index 6ad3c39f003..a55b7990f71 100755
--- a/scripts/metadata.pl
+++ b/scripts/metadata.pl
@@ -849,8 +849,8 @@ sub gen_package_subdirs() {
 	parse_package_metadata($ARGV[0]) or exit 1;
 	foreach my $name (sort {uc($a) cmp uc($b)} keys %package) {
 		my $pkg = $package{$name};
-		if ($pkg->{name} && $pkg->{package_subdir}) {
-			print "Package/$name/subdir = $pkg->{package_subdir}\n";
+		if ($pkg->{name} && $pkg->{repository}) {
+			print "Package/$name/subdir = $pkg->{repository}\n";
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/scripts/metadata.pm b/scripts/metadata.pm
index 8e285e53a8f..e00f4e97cfb 100644
--- a/scripts/metadata.pm
+++ b/scripts/metadata.pm
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ sub parse_package_metadata($) {
 		/^Build-Depends\/(\w+): \s*(.+)\s*$/ and $pkg->{"builddepends/$1"} = [ split /\s+/, $2 ];
 		/^Build-Types:\s*(.+)\s*$/ and $pkg->{buildtypes} = [ split /\s+/, $1 ];
 		/^Package-Subdir:\s*(.+?)\s*$/ and $pkg->{package_subdir} = $1;
+		/^Repository:\s*(.+?)\s*$/ and $pkg->{repository} = $1;
 		/^Category: \s*(.+)\s*$/ and do {
 			$pkg->{category} = $1;
 			defined $category{$1} or $category{$1} = {};