Hi! 2011/10/13 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org>: >> [...] >> Title: AppStream and Component Metadata for Debian >> DEP: 11 >> URL: http://wiki.debian.org/AppStreamDebianProposal >> Drivers: Matthias Klumpp <matth...@tenstral.net>, >> Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org>, >> Michael Vogt <m...@debian.org> >> Abstract: >> Proposal for an additional file in Debian repositories containing >> information about components packages provide as well as >> all data required for the cross-distro application manager >> project AppStream[1]. > > I would like to point out that some of this stuff is already placed in > the Packages files. For example gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg has the custom > Gstreamer-Decoders header containing a list of codecs this package > supports. > > I would like to point out this project: > > http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata > > And strongly suggest that you make your proposal much more general and > as such able to handle arbitrary upstream metadata, either manually > added to debian/control by the Debian package maintainer (like > UpstreamMetadata) or automatically added to debian/foo/DEBIAN/control > during the build process by automatic tools (presumably as in your > proposal). Yes - this was already planned. The only problem at time is that the "components" data should be distro-agnostic, so if someone requests the package providing Plasma-Dataengine with name "XYZ" on Debian, it should also get an usable result on Fedora etc. with that string. Also, it would be a bit bad to let maintainers define everything they want, so maybe we should just allow some custom fields like "DEP11-UpstreamBugtracker". The UpstreamMetadata approach looks very nice, but it is about general upstream info. This is not required dor the components part of DEP-11, but for the application-related part this information will be extremely valuable. So maybe we should really add it. There was also a proposal to use RDF as the format for DEP-11. If we add much more metadata, an extensible and standardized format like RDF would be better, IMO. (If ftpmasters allow it)
> I would also like to see the Packages files split up based on audience: > > dpkg: package names and relationships > apt: package download information > all users: description, homepage etc > desktop users: freedesktop application info, fontconfig (languages > etc), gstreamer (codec information), mime types, usb ids, pci ids, > network protocols > ... I'd like that, but I don't think this will happen very soon - this would require a major restructuring of Debian archives, and incompatible changes, while DEP-11 is just an optional and less invasive extension :) Bye, Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKNHny9pAPpqnb4P=zpchojwap5y6ar5brckpfi9ykch-st...@mail.gmail.com
