Hi Steffen, On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 07:02:34PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > The registry of Bioconda packages (https://bioconda.github.io/recipes) > is not really a registry in the sense that the description of the > package would dominate. As such we would be misusing that field in > debian/upstream/metadata a bit. But then again, Bioconda seems like it > is gonna stay and and I am using it myself on our University cluster. I > tend to think that knowing about a package to also exist in Bioconda is > of interest for our users. > > What are your feelings about something like > > Registry: > - Name: Bioconda > Entry: barrnap
I'd consider this kind of link a "wider sense of registry" - so no real problem with this. > which would then show to > https://bioconda.github.io/recipes/barrnap/README.html in our task > pages. Helpful? Distracting? Disturbing? I'm not fully sure. Its helpful to have some matching between Debian and bioconda packages. However, propagating a link to some kind of competing method to install the software might be distracting. I'm undecided how to consume this kind of registry data. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
