Re: Asking for common wisdom on new field(s): References*
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Charles Plessy wrote:
> - Provide central place for additional description of the upstream project.
> - Provide the information on-line to systems where the pakcage is not
> installed (through the UDD).
> - Provide the same information at build time so that it can be incorporated
> to binary packages as well.
> - Establish a system that allows the update of the on-line information without
> uploading a new package.
goals are indeed worth the effort; although last one imho might
create a divergence between what package provides and what is known to
the "system", so not sure how robust it would be
also the 2nd goal... I guess you implied also use of it for the
descriptions of the packages at packages.debian.org. it seems though
that for the robustness that system primarily actually relied on static
information extracted from the packages (control/copyright files), and
I am not sure either it would be an easy job of persuading/changing it
to use of some online system. So may be, in addition, we could simply
suggest extraction of debian/upstream(-metadata.yaml) alongside with
control/copyright so, if present, it could extend presentation of
packages at p.d.o
"additional description" aspect, now nicely points that "manually" we
should only extend what present elsewhere, and then somehow
magically 'summary' file gets generated from all related files. right?
> convenient for that particular purpose. But I also understand that for
> the purpose of providing BibTeX files to the users, storing them as… BibTeX
> files in the source package is the most straightforward.
as long as there is a convenience layer to go reliably, easily and
lossless between BibTex (to a reasonable coverage of common
fields) and intermediate presentation -- count me in ;)
> bibliography. For instance registration or donnation URLs. So
> we can't replace
> completely the system we are building with a BibTeX file.
who suggested such an evil idea you are fighting against? ;)
> I hope I can read the whole thread next week and be more constructive.
great -- will wait for it
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