Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

[Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hello,

Charles Plessy wrote:
> 
> I have no strong opinion where to put the bibliographic information, and
> propose to discuss the different possibilities on debian-devel once we
> have brainstormed enough.
> 
> For the format, although I won't stop volunteers to write conversion
> scripts, I would like to stress out that for biology the easiest is
> probably do download the pubmed.org record and convert it using the
> bibutils package in Debian, and that if we do not use a well recognised
> format, the first thing users will do is probably to reconvert what we
> provide to either PubMed, BibTeX or Endnote formats...

I am with Charles. What I particularly like about this thread that it
is not about getting singular packages out but about how Debian
integrates best with the users as an hollistic instrument.

Steffen