2011/10/13 Paul Wise <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > >> (please explicitly CC me with any replies, I am not subscribed to -project). >> >> [... DEP-11 info ...] > > 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. Yep, but DEP-11 is much more general and useful in much more cases. It might be very useful to allow defining custom metadata fields, like GStreamer does.
> 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). I would agree with this, but we need to make sure that this information can be shared across distributions,l so applications searching for module with the name X get the same results on Fedora and Debian. But we already discussed making it possible to add custom Component info for packages. The UpstreamMetadata could be included too, I guess this would be a really valuable extension for tools like the Software Center or even Synaptic (to show detailed upstream info). > 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 > ... This would make sense - but this would be a very huge change on the repo format, I'm not sure if ftpmasters would allow this. That's why DEP-11 is as less invasive as possible. Cheers, Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKNHny9cNpfCRR=-D92E=+nhqcsbggmxhmvw59ovpaxhn4r...@mail.gmail.com
