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Re: Bug#703402: PTS: link to the blends website for packages involved in blends



On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 10:47 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:33:41PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > <a href="...">jr</a>, <a href="...">games</a> <a href="...">blends</a>
> 
> For the moment I see some problem here because a single package could
> perfectly be part of more than one Blend as well as part of more than
> one task of a single blend.  For instance consider gnuplot in Debian
> Science:

Right, hence the links to multiple blends in the example I gave.

> So putting a binary package into a task is not a strict (=exclusive)
> categorisation because one binary package could serve several different
> purposes.  I have no idea whether this can be reasonably reflected in
> PTS.

I think it can, with multiple links.

> This can be approached and I could perfectly imagine to put the content
> of all tasks files into an UDD table if this might simplify things.  But
> also here we should choose the table design apropriately:  You can either
> give the Blend / Task preference like

The PTS converts data in various into XML files for rendering using
XSLT, but importing via a UDD CGI sounds fine, we would need the UDD
folks to add that script though.

> They are:
> 
>    http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio#gromacs
> 
> to stick to the later example of gromacs in Debian Med.

Here is a more problematic example, #logol doesn't exist but #logol-bin
does. It might be possible to do the second link, the first is easier.

http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio#logol
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio#logol-bin

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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