Am Donnerstag, den 16.10.2008, 17:41 +0200 schrieb Michael Banck: > The problem I have with doc-base is that it is underused and not very > accessible. At least that is my impression of it as somebody who > doesn't care a lot about it from a packager's POV. I probably should > care more, though. I know lots of long-term Debian users who are not even aware of doc-base at all... I do share your POV here. > So anyway, I'd really like to have something usable for users in > /usr/share/doc/<package> and not just some meta-data stream that's > marked up reasonably somewhere else. Maybe it's best to have a seperate > citation.bib and references.bib file with just the bibtex data? This is IMHO the solution to go for. Adam's idea is quite good as well, and as I see it, they're complementary in that we could use doc-base for now and use the data (better: the .doc-base files) to generate the citations.bib and references.bib out of those entries via a script. I would not mind having a citations.bib in /usr/share/doc/package, though. It has the advantage that it's directly useable by any user. A good solution to me is one where there is no copy & paste involved, meaning everything the user needs to use cite/reference is to add a database to the reference manager of choice. (Or LaTeX, which I'd count as reference manager in this case as well.) Best regards Manuel
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