Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

[David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>]

At Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:47:24 +0900,
Charles Plessy wrote:
>  - How do we make sure that the name of the references (the thing after
>    @article) do not clash between each other and the user's existing reference
>    database? Or can most programs cope with this at import time?

Maybe I am missing some subtlety, but couldn't we use the binary
package name as (part of) the reference? Perhaps prefix with deb: or
deb- to carve out a debian namespace. It would make the references
longer than typical, but I think it is no problem for BibTeX.

Cheers,

d