On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote:
> Again, all of this is very preliminary and undocumented. The main message I > would like to give is that indeed, for all the information that is not > specific > to Debian, there must be other ways to make them flow from the maintainer to > the user without transiting through the debian/control file. This paragraph triggered my memory of PackageMap, a way to map package names between distributions: http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=373 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagemap It might actually be best to store all this upstream data in the PackageMap or somewhere associated with it and map from Debian package -> PackageMap name -> upstream metadata. I'm also reminded of things like DOAP, which are sometimes stored in upstream tarballs: http://trac.usefulinc.com/doap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_of_a_Project -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
