Re: more formally indicating the registration URL
Hello,
Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:12:24PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>> /usr/share/icons/Tango/32x32/emotes/face-angel.png
>> (also found here in large
>> https://sharesource.org/svn/phoneme/theme/png/256x256/face-angel.png)
>>
>> I found it to fit rather nicely since we are requested to
>> to be nice and register
>>
>> /usr/share/icons/Tango/32x32/devices/stock_mic.png
>> (in large http://municipality.zlatograd.com/tango-icons/stock_mic.png)
>>
>> since we are opening a channel to talk back to upstream, I found
>> this mike to be also rather nice.
>
> Well, I admit that I do not really understand at which places you want to
> put these icons - I think we wanted to ask a textual information ...
my hunch was that we should have some symbol that is shown together with the program name
to indicate that a program is requesting a registration. That symbol should appear (in my
mind) as consistently as non-annoyingly possible together with the package names.
I would prefer not to read text, whenever that is avoidable.
>> I would be prepared to follow Michael's suggestion to flag debian/control files with a
>> separate URL for the registration and parse that information for the pure-blends' package
>> presentation scripts.
>
> ... and I replied that these X?-fields will *not* be propagated to a place
> where we can parse it for the Blends pages - so sorry, it will not work
> this way.
Fine. This seconds Michael's (?) objections towards an extension of the debian/* files for
such non-technical meta-issues.
>> Is there speaking much against such a pilot? Or should it rather be
>> a comment in the description in analogy to the introduction of the " Homepage:" indication?
>
> My suggestion was to use the "Remark" field which ends up in these grayish
> additions to a description.
I am not aware of the Remark field, but maybe this would be compatible with somthing
analogous to
--- bio (Revision 1027)
+++ bio (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
Depends: arb, clustalw | clustalw-mpi, clustalx
Why: Sequence alignments and related programs (Non-free, thus only suggested).
-Depends: adun.app, garlic, gdpc, ghemical, gromacs, pymol, rasmol, autodock,
autogrid, r-other-bio3d
+Depends: adun.app, garlic, gdpc, ghemical, gromacs, pymol, rasmol, r-other-bio3d
Why: Molecular modelling and molecular dynamics.
Depends: plasmidomics
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
Depends: glam2
Why: Motif search
+Depends: autodock, autogrid
+Pkg-Registration: http://autodock.scripps.edu/downloads/autodock-registration
+Why: Molecular modelling and molecular dynamics.
+
Suggests: pdb2pqr
? And similarly there could be a "Pkg-Reference" for instance, or "Pkg-Publication". I
don't know about how close such information needs to be to the package. Both belong rather
to debian/copyright than to debian/control, but either could be parsed to present the
information to portals like that of Debian-Med.
Cheers,
Steffen
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