On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
Well, linking is the easiest way, I would prefer a summary page because it is more useful that looking every project on the general packages.debian.org or packages.qa.debian.org site. About that I would think some web services which can be used to return specific information in well formed XML for the packages.* sites... Something that bugs.d.o already does, but I dunno if it is also available for other sites. Surely much better than re-inventing the wheel each time...
Well, I don't think that at the suggested page something is reinvented.
(Feel free to prove me wrong - I would hate to reinvent anything.) IMHO
there is no such think like an overview about descriptions of a certain
subset of packages that exist and that _not_ _yet_ exists in Debian.
While you could probably get the descriptions of the existing packages
from some XML service (which would be a nice thing) I doubt that this
service will be expanded to DDTP translations - which is really high on
my agenda because if we could have the descriptions translated for our
target users we could start claiming this is user friendly.
For the other pages that are used in Debian-Med David is using some
services - but I can not comment on this until I have revised the code.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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