Le Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:24:22PM +0200, Manuel Prinz a écrit : > The solution proposed by Andreas here is IMHO the way to go: Provide the > information in the source package and install them where it is needed or > wanted. This is i.e. one way the Emdebian project slims it's packages: > Not calling certain debhelper scripts.
> Another issues that comes to my mind is whether we want to provide > references to/about the software/package or information which > publication the authors want to be cited with (if there are several). > Maybe we should differ between citation (what to cite, important for > authors) and references (information, important for users of a > software). Thoughts? Hi Manuel, Thanks a lot for the summary ! It seems that if we go the Debhelper way, we could make dh_references not install anything if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains a 'nodoc' flag. When a large majority of the scientific packages would contain debian/references, we could enhance dh_references to maintain central bibliographies in mainstream formats using DPKG triggers. It should probably be possible to add comments such as "Cite this article if you use 'foo'" in the references. With this proper documentation, we could add the other references that the programs documentations cite. I created a wiki page to organise our work when the brainstorming phase will be over. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/References . By the way, I would be very interested to read the opinion of Michael, who started this thread. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
