> > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-exppsy/debian-bibliography.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=tools/dbib_collect > > and make it do the extraction/conversion from /upstream (which will be > > under /usr/doc/PACKAGE/, right?)
> Ahhh, this assumes that reference information is kept in > debian/changelog, right? that was our initial approach, somewhat argued against by others ;-) the point of the script though was more along the lines of your > cat /var/lib/bibref/snippets/* > /var/lib/bibref/debian.bib i.e. to gather bibliographic entries for all software installed on the system. > The alternative approach could perfectly be to seek for files matching > /usr/share/doc/*/upstream > and do the BibTeX generation afterwards. yeap -- that was the idea behind dbib_collect -- to gather from all possible places, but if we converge on /upstream, and it would (or does already?) allow multiple entries, trigger-generated snippets-cat-er might be preferable eliminating the need for an additional user-land tool. > packages with renamed files). If you are asking: "Why, this should be > installed?" I would say: "You are right, probably nobody has really > thought about this." I would fully agree that it could add extra > information to the doc inside a binary package - so why not installing > it. ;-) > Despite this my plan should work with or without the installation of > the files. I would like to do something like this: > debian/control: > Build-Depends: upstream-to-bibref-helper > # for sure the package needs a better name e.g. debian-bibliography-tools... ? ;-) or may be the whole debian-bibliography could be abbreviated as debbib..., then debbib-tools > database. Please note that this is just a scetch which should be > enhanced and perhaps / probably the debian.bib file should end up at a > better place where bibtex files will be automatically searched for etc - > but these are implemantation details. IIRC I have looked for such a place and there were no suitable one (I could be wrong), so in that preliminary debian-bibliography package we placed /usr/share/bib/debian.bib with the intent to seek adding /usr/share/bib into default BIBINPUTS. Here debian.bib http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-exppsy/debian-bibliography.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=bib/debian.bib is not a compilation of software bib references but rather ready-to-use entries for debian documents (e.g. papers) and some wiki pages. With http://wiki.debian.org/CategoryPublication we can now extend it automatically each "release" with relevant publication entries (script yet TODO). So, compiled one might better be named debian-software.bib or may be even more appropriate (since references might be on data packages etc) debian-packages.bib Cheers, -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
