Re: debian-science repository structure
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
Those are of course valid points, though I still think that is something that
can be generated from the meta-information that is already available. Writing
a script for that should be fairly trivial and I'd be happy to do so!
Does anyone else has an opinion on this ? Andreas ? Charles ?
I admit I do not really understand the question. What meta-information are you
actually talking about. I've thought we would talk about categorisation of a
package and I don't think that it is in any of the meta information of a package
(except perhaps in the Vcs-* fields *if* we just decided for a category and thus
the problem is recursive). IMHO if we face a package that might belong to more
than one category I would leave the maintainer of the package the decision.
This is similar to the situation if we have package that might belong to
Chemestry and Biology: If the package is just maintained by DebiChem we (as the
Debian Med team) just leave it there (and are happy that a group of reliable
maintainers cares about it). My request for categorisation was based upon the
idea that we might release other CDDs out of the umbrella Debian Science and
putting packages into categories might easily give the answer what is for
them. But I admit the concept has some drawbacks.
Personnaly, I don't care about the format. I care about the content
(just like SVN/git). ;)
Well said.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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