On Thu, 06 Sep 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > > ultimate use case -- tool which given a list of packages returns list of > > bibliography entries ready for use in a publication. > I could imagine several ways to answer this question (my prefered way > would be to use UDD). Doing this based on the information in the BibTeX > file is IMHO a misuse of the BibTeX database: BibTeX was invented to > manage citations for LaTeX texts - it was not invented to obtain > information about Debian packages.
hm... [cut my previous, ironic version of the reply] wasn't it "invented" to cite the software provided by Debian packaging? if so, association with the packages is imho quite relevant there then > So while it would be pretty simple to add the field you were asking for > to the BibTeX file you need better arguments to convince me to do > something that could be done with a pretty simple UDD query way more > reliably. users + UDD == confusion -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120906134008.gu26...@onerussian.com