Dear Hervé, hope you had a safe trip home from Debian Med sprint.
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 07:40:52PM +0100, Hervé Ménager wrote: > Dear all, > I have been working with Matus Kalas and Steffen Moeller during the > debian-med sprint on linking bio.tools to debian-med packages. > We created the mapping file there for consideration by the bio.tools > community (based on Steffen, Andreas and Matus' work on annotation of > debian packages and their integration in the debian > UDD):https://github.com/bio-tools/debian-med-links-analysis/blob/master/debian-biotools.csv I'd like to comment first that the code of the script draining those data also resides in bio-tools Git[1]. I'm not sure in what repository it is placed best. I do not intend to maintain it actively since for me that's a solved problem. If you have more questions feel free to ask me. > I would like to get your opinion on how such links should appear in > bio.tools. Two things > come to my mind: > 1- have a link to a webpage for the debian package itself > 2- include an apt link for debian/ubuntu users who use that kind of > fancy feature (https://wiki.debian.org/AptProtocol) For me the latter is something new I was not aware about. So I'd go with the well established link to the packages page (may be even to https://tracker.debian.org) and not use "fancy" features. > Any advice/opinion? Thanks for your work on this Andreas. [1] https://github.com/bio-tools/biotoolsConnect/blob/master/DebianMed/edam.sh -- http://fam-tille.de
