Hello Debian-ers,
We (ELIXIR Tools Platform) have been working a lot on the Tools Platform lately. One of the major contributors is Debian Med, and collecting the package metadata from you will soon enable:
- cross-linking between e.g. bio.tools and Debian Med packages
- cross-validation and enrichment of metadata.
Speaking of which, our current setup is very convenient for us: we can update Debian metadata at any time, and use it to produce better tool descriptions. *But*, one thing which is unclear is how we can contribute back some metadata to your packages. Would there be any kind of interest on your side in e.g. opening Merge Requests on salsa when some metadata can use some update? If so, should our system open these MRs automatically or semi-automatically (assuming we can define precisely when a metadata difference mandates a correction on the Debian side)?
Cheers,
Hervé and Matus