Re: Re^6: Debian Metadata Proposal -- draft rev.1.4
Marco.Budde@hqsys.antar.com (Marco Budde) writes:
> I#ve downloaded the URN description yesterday. I don#t think that this
> could help us. There proposal looks like a mixture of a DNS for the WWW
> and apache#s rewrite feature.
>
> For both ways of URN you need a server (httpd or dns) and network access.
> For a local system this is useless.
Well. For an offline system it is useless. There could be a
debian-urn package which contains URL2URL CGI scripts or whatnot, and
a list of URNs and mirrors of publice docuemntation web sites, etc.
Surely not something I want to wait for though. ;)
> APH> Maybe our validator routine for pkg maintainers could check for this
> APH> case.
>
> Another important thing, a translation should always use the same Subject
> line as the original.
Noted now in the spec. Good idea.
> APH> the system. Why do we need to be have a objectID on a bit of
> APH> metadata? If a display system needs one, it could generate it on it's
> APH> own, i.e., a random number.
>
> We need it for the translated or auto-converted documents.
Why? Translations are translation of files. Their identifier is
their file path.
I haven't seen a single reason why I need globally unique metadata
entity identifiers. Lets move forward on implementation and see if we
do or not. I hope not.
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