Re: upstream/metadata with references to software catalogs^Wregistries?
On 06/22/2016 02:12 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> [For readers of Blends list: We are discussing an additional field
> in debian/upstream/metadata ]
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 01:12:46PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
>> Our plans are to offer reference to
>> * the bio.tools registry (obviously)
>> * the SeqWiki (since this community feeds the bio.tools and for now we
>> would start upload to bio.tools what is not coming from the SeqWiki)
>>
>> The debian/upstream/metadata file would then for bowtie see the
>> additional lines
>>
>> Registry:
>> Name: bio.tools
>> Entry: http://bio.tools/tool/DebianMed/bowtie/1.1.1
>> Registry:
>> Name: SEQwiki
>> Entry: http://seqanswers.com/wiki/Bowtie
> Just for the Syntax: This should rather be
>
> Registry:
> - Name: bio.tools
> Entry: http://bio.tools/tool/DebianMed/bowtie/1.1.1
> - Name: SEQwiki
> Entry: http://seqanswers.com/wiki/Bowtie
>
> This would ensure that we have only one Registry field which might
> contain a set of values.
>
>> The bio.tools registry has the obvious problem that the version should
>> not be passed along. Fixable, one tends to think.
> ... fixable at bio.tools side you mean, right?
>
>> The motivation for a package maintainer to add those references could be
>> * better visibility, i.e. hope for a reverse link, so the own work is
>> found more quickly, at least for the bio.tools this is coming
>> * the references may guide users to additional information on how to
>> include the package in their workflow
> Please note: Adding these values to upstream/metadata does not make
> things user visible automatically. We need to patch tasks pages / other
> things to let the data show up.
would be nice indeed to get metadata info visible directly from the web
or via a debian command like apt-meta package_source_name ;-)
>
>> If there is no opposition to add such references, then we may go ahead
>> with a few today.
> I'm CCing Blends list to get further input for the idea.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
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