Le Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:17:22PM +0200, Paul Wise a écrit : > > I'd put the homepage in a "user" category and the VCS URLs in a > "developer" category. > > The data in that database is gathered from .changes files and binary > and source packages uploaded to ftp-master, except for debtags and > translated descriptions (IIRC, not sure how those get in). Re-using > that workflow for meta-data updates, say, by uploading metadata > updates in .changes files instead of full packages could be useful.
Interesting idea… I was about to propose to put all upstream-related metadata in a YAML-encoded file, but if a .changes file is to be generated, the Debian control format may be preferrable. Anyway, this would only make a difference if there were multi-line field contents. Here is an example: aqwa『debian-med』$ cat samtools/debian/upstream-metadata.yaml DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352 Homepage: http://samtools.sourceforge.net PMID: 19505943 Reference: | @article{HengLi06082009, author = {Li, Heng and Handsaker, Bob and Wysoker, Alec and Fennell, Tim and Ruan, Jue and Homer, Nils and Marth, Gabor and Abecasis, Goncalo and Durbin, Richard and 1000 Genome Project Data Processing Subgroup, }, title = {{The Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) Format and SAMtools}}, journal = {Bioinformatics}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {btp352}, doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352}, year = {2009}, URL = {http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/btp352v1}, eprint = {http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/btp352v1.pdf} } Repository: https://samtools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/samtools The advantage of yaml format is that it is trivial to parse using existing libraries: aqwa『debian-med』$ perl -MYAML -e '$/=""; my($fields) = Load(<STDIN>); print $fields->{'DOI'}' < samtools/debian/upstream-metadata.yaml 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352 I am unsure if it is a good idea to manage multi-line upstream meta-data anyway. Are there other opinions on this ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
