On 06/22/2016 02:12 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > [For readers of Blends list: We are discussing an additional field > in debian/upstream/metadata ] > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 01:12:46PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: >> Our plans are to offer reference to >> * the bio.tools registry (obviously) >> * the SeqWiki (since this community feeds the bio.tools and for now we >> would start upload to bio.tools what is not coming from the SeqWiki) >> >> The debian/upstream/metadata file would then for bowtie see the >> additional lines >> >> Registry: >> Name: bio.tools >> Entry: http://bio.tools/tool/DebianMed/bowtie/1.1.1 >> Registry: >> Name: SEQwiki >> Entry: http://seqanswers.com/wiki/Bowtie > Just for the Syntax: This should rather be > > Registry: > > > - Name: bio.tools > > > Entry: http://bio.tools/tool/DebianMed/bowtie/1.1.1 > > > - Name: SEQwiki > > > Entry: http://seqanswers.com/wiki/Bowtie > > > > This would ensure that we have only one Registry field which might > contain a set of values. > >> The bio.tools registry has the obvious problem that the version should >> not be passed along. Fixable, one tends to think. > ... fixable at bio.tools side you mean, right? > >> The motivation for a package maintainer to add those references could be >> * better visibility, i.e. hope for a reverse link, so the own work is >> found more quickly, at least for the bio.tools this is coming >> * the references may guide users to additional information on how to >> include the package in their workflow > Please note: Adding these values to upstream/metadata does not make > things user visible automatically. We need to patch tasks pages / other > things to let the data show up. would be nice indeed to get metadata info visible directly from the web or via a debian command like apt-meta package_source_name ;-) > >> If there is no opposition to add such references, then we may go ahead >> with a few today. > I'm CCing Blends list to get further input for the idea. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. >
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