Dear all, I am starting the Debian Enahncement Proposal (DEP) number 12 together with Andreas Tille who kindly accepted to co-drive this work.
For general information about DEPs, please see http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/ The puropose of this proposal is to store in source packages some metadata related to the usptream project, in a file called debian/upstream. We are currently using it in some Debian Pure Blends projects to feed some summary pages with the bibliographic references of manuscripts describing the packaged works. See for instance Debian Med's "biology" task page. http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio I think that debian/upstream can be more broadly useful, and therefore propose this DEP, to finalise the format and standardise the most frequent fields of this file. Your comments, suggestions or questions are all very welcome; please send them to the debian-qa mailing list, where the discussion will take place. Here is the full information about this DEP: Title: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream DEP: 12 State: DRAFT Date: 2013-01-03 Drivers: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> URL: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep12 Source: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep12.mdwn Abstract: The source package control files and some of their derivatives are currently used to document the URL of the home page of the work that is packaged ("upstream"). However, this approach is hard to extend to other information describing upstream, because the size of the control files has to be limited according to the limited power of some systems running Debian. . We propose a new file in the source packages, debian/upstream, formatted in YAML to hold arbitrary information about upstream, for instance the URL to a donation page, bibliographic information about publications describing the upstream work, the URL to the upstream sources, etc. . The scope of this DEP is the format of the debian/upstream file, and the specification of the most frequent fields. The flow of information from the source packages to data providers such as the UDD are is specified here. Please refer to http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata for more information on that subject. . Discussion takes place on the debian-qa mailing list. 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-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130103011137.gh1...@falafel.plessy.net
