Le Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:50:30AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > Rather, it would be good to have a facility similar to the way the > Debian changelog is currently available: have the upstream changelog > published in a predictable location by package name. > > A good project from someone with a lot of time on their hands, I guess.
Hello everybody, I propose to store this information and similar ones in a parsable file in the debian directory of the packages. For instance, debian/upstream-metadata.yaml. For packages stored in a VCS, this information will be easy to retreive. The retreiver system can then crunch the files and sumbit a proper table to the Ultimate Debian Database (UDD), which is a convenient entry point to build dynamic websites. This would separate the taks of information gathering, information transmission, and information display. Of course, for the packages not stored in a public VCS, there needs a plan B… I am accumulating such files in the packages I maintain in the Debian Med packaging team. For instance: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/perlprimer/trunk/debian/upstream-metadata.yaml http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/melting/trunk/debian/upstream-metadata.yaml As you can see, I am hesitant on the format of some fields. I think that the structure of the file should stay as simple as possible. As a first proof of principle, I created a tiny site that can turn the individual package records in per-field summaries. For instance: aqwa『debian』$ wget http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/table/DOI -O - 2>/dev/null melting 10.1093/bioinformatics/17.12.1226 perlprimer 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth254 r-other-bio3d 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl461 bioperl 10.1101/gr.361602 mummer 10.1186/gb-2004-5-2-r12 r-cran-qvalue 10.1073/pnas.1530509100 samtools 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352 (where DOI is a bibliographic information: if one pastes it after http://dx.doi.org/, he is redirected to the academic publication describing the program, for instance ’http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bth254’) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
