Re: What is the best place for package meta-data ?
Le lundi 14 décembre 2009 à 12:37 +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 18:47:00 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > In the Debian Med and Science teams, we are looking for efficient ways to
> > document slow-changing metadata relevant to our packages, in particular:
>
> > Alternatives will be much easier to build if we manage to centralise the
> > information in a common place. This could be in the source packages
> > themselves, either in a dedicated file or in debian/control (but not
> > necessarly ending in the Packages and Sources files), or in the file we
> > use to create our metapackages. Ultimately we would like to be able to
> > have this information flow in places like the Ultimate Debian Database
> > and the web pages proposing the packages for download.
>
> Given that this is supposed to be upstream-only information, are you
> aware of DOAP [0]? It seems to me it would be better to reuse already
> existing infrastructure than to create yet a new one, that only a
> subset of Debian might end up using. This could also be submitted
> upstream I think.
>
> It's XML though, but it could be easily transformed to any output format
> we'd want to use, say control-style for example, which most of our tools
> already handle, if need be.
>
> [0] <http://trac.usefulinc.com/doap>
> <http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/doap.xml>
>
+1 for the use of RDF and appropriate ontologies, like DOAP, FOAF and
other like scientific publication related, as already discussed
previously on -da list IIRC.
My 2 cents,
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