Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 08:22:06AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
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> There are lots of upstream-metadata that we might want to have available
> and we need to find a proper solution that doesn't involve debian/control.
In Debian Med and Debian Science we are just using
http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata
for keeping scientific references. Bu tthe idea is not restricted to
this. There exists an UDD importer for these data.
> It should be outside of the package and probably shared accross
> all Linux distributions. It seems to me to be a good extension of the work
> done/planned on the cross-distribution app-store.
I do not see a reason why this should not be possible with the proposed
solution. It's just not (yet) widely adopted in Debian.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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