On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 12:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > It might actually be best to store all this upstream data in the > PackageMap or somewhere associated with it and map from Debian package > -> PackageMap name -> upstream metadata. > > I'm also reminded of things like DOAP, which are sometimes stored in > upstream tarballs: DoaP is idle; it needs someone to pick it up and finish it off - its lacking well defined relationships with other projects, which sharply limits the benefits individual projects get from a adopting it. Being RDF though, you can process doap quite trivially and there are some half-decent directory services around now. As far as PackageMap goes, it seems a bit odd that it would both use XML, and not take the RDF approach of identifying objects by their url - if they did that, then each distro can (in their own db) map to the url for a project - and you can join across distros by that upstream url. -Rob
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