Re: Gathering package upstream meta-data in the UDD. (was: Re: more formally indicating the registration URL)
Le Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 04:05:17PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:00:48AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > since BibTeX issues are perhaps a bit specialised for debian-qa, I propose to
> > transfer this part of the discussion on debian-science@l.d.o, where I reopened
> > an old thread.
>
> Well, the question is not really about BibTeX or not. The question is
> whether it is a good idea to have a database format as a field value.
> If you have the field "Publication" and a complete BibTeX record as
> value I somehow wonder whether this is useful in the end or whether we
> rather should translate the record in a SQL table.
That is a good question, that I would rephrase: what should be stored, and
should everything be exported?
For the moment the BibTeX stored reference is a rather experimental feature,
and its purpose is also to test the YAML format. As you probalbly noticed, the
key parts of the BibTeX reference that allow to construct a weblink to the
published article—the digital object identifier (DOI) and the PubMed record
ID—have their own YAML mapping: I do not expect the BibTeX reference to be
extracted and parsed, nor to be exported to SQL. On the other hand, it can be
easily popped out at build time with a Perl oneliner
(‘http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20090808073608.GF17276@kunpuu.plessy.org’;).
[For further discussion about how to make nice links on the Blends web
sentinels, I propose to elaborate on another list.]
There is another volatile meta-data with a much broader scope that could be
included in the upstream-metadata.yaml file (or whichever smarter name we give
to it), the Debian watch file. All the objections you made above apply.
We could either store it raw in a YAML mapping, like:
Watch: |
version=3
opts=dversionmangle=s/~dfsg// \
http://sf.net/samtools/samtools-([\d\.]*)\.tar\.bz2
Or split the information in multiple mappings:
Watch-Version : 3
Watch-Options : dversionmangle=s/~dfsg//
Watch-Regexp : http://sf.net/samtools/samtools-([\d\.]*)\.tar\.bz2
While the last option looks more structured, we should really think twice if it
makes sense to have the ‘Watch’ metadata in a tabluar SQL database, or if
simply storing it raw somewhere else is enough. The same conclusion may apply
to similar resources like the BibTeX reference.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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