Hi! On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 18:47:00 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > In the Debian Med and Science teams, we are looking for efficient ways to > document slow-changing metadata relevant to our packages, in particular:
> Alternatives will be much easier to build if we manage to centralise the > information in a common place. This could be in the source packages > themselves, either in a dedicated file or in debian/control (but not > necessarly ending in the Packages and Sources files), or in the file we > use to create our metapackages. Ultimately we would like to be able to > have this information flow in places like the Ultimate Debian Database > and the web pages proposing the packages for download. Given that this is supposed to be upstream-only information, are you aware of DOAP [0]? It seems to me it would be better to reuse already existing infrastructure than to create yet a new one, that only a subset of Debian might end up using. This could also be submitted upstream I think. It's XML though, but it could be easily transformed to any output format we'd want to use, say control-style for example, which most of our tools already handle, if need be. [0] <http://trac.usefulinc.com/doap> <http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/doap.xml> regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
