Hi Andreas, Thanks!
NB reposting to the list ;) On Fri, 06 May 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > Well, leaving those entries in the tasks file is certainly no problem at > all. However, in how far this info should be used? The Pkg-URL link is > currently used instead of the generic link to packages.debian.org. I'm > not convinced that another link in this meta information field would do > any good. So where should this information be actually used? I also do > not really see any need for the purpose you are mentioning because if you > are using backports.debian.org it should be probably easy to find and > Ubuntu users will also easily find the packages on their usual mirrors. And here is the catch, with NeuroDebian in mind again -- we backport for both Debian and Ubuntu; (un)fortunately we do not upload to the official backports.d.o because whenever we considered it before, the overhead of preparing them was a bit too steep and I was a bottleneck since Michael wasn't yet a DD. We might reconsider b.d.o in the future, but situation would remain with poor souls on derivatives -- they will not find up-to-date versions in their repositories. > I was actually thinking twice whether there is any need to have a link > to packages.debian.org because it should be clear in principle, that a > package which is an official Debian package has an entry at this > location. Well -- I think that link is still might be useful for various scenarios (e.g. to get to any other page, e.g. PTS, which is pointed from the package page but not from the tasks' entry). > I just was considering this some extra comfort for the user > and this link usually provides some interesting information. yes it is ;) > So in short: Yes, we could definitely leave Pkg-URL - but to make it > more than some extra noise in the tasks file we need a real application > for this information. Real application would be to become a convenience of locating up-to-date packages across releases/distributions. Sure think it must not replace the "Official Debian package" link, but rather serve as an addition. What if instead of just "Official Debian package" or "Unofficial Debian package" it would become Packages: Debian, Ubuntu, NeuroDebian, other which could be instructed with a generic "Pkg-URL" being "other" (unless pointing to Debian official), and alternative locations coded as Pkg-URL-NeuroDebian, etc (if another else has a reasonable name). Also if/when Debian PPAs (or whatever they would be called) become available, it could become Pkg-URL-PPA-login, to be listed as "PPA-login" ? -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
