Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference
Le Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:24:22PM +0200, Manuel Prinz a écrit :
> The solution proposed by Andreas here is IMHO the way to go: Provide the
> information in the source package and install them where it is needed or
> wanted. This is i.e. one way the Emdebian project slims it's packages:
> Not calling certain debhelper scripts.
> Another issues that comes to my mind is whether we want to provide
> references to/about the software/package or information which
> publication the authors want to be cited with (if there are several).
> Maybe we should differ between citation (what to cite, important for
> authors) and references (information, important for users of a
> software). Thoughts?
Hi Manuel,
Thanks a lot for the summary !
It seems that if we go the Debhelper way, we could make dh_references
not install anything if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains a 'nodoc' flag. When
a large majority of the scientific packages would contain
debian/references, we could enhance dh_references to maintain central
bibliographies in mainstream formats using DPKG triggers. It should
probably be possible to add comments such as "Cite this article if you
use 'foo'" in the references. With this proper documentation, we could
add the other references that the programs documentations cite.
I created a wiki page to organise our work when the brainstorming phase
will be over. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/References . By the
way, I would be very interested to read the opinion of Michael, who
started this thread.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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