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As said above these files are created to prove the validity of the citation information but nothing will stop you from using the files for some other purpose. If you want to create the BibTeX file yourself you can login to alioth and say:

   psql service=udd -c "SELECT * FROM bibtex()" | sed -e 's/ *+$//' -e 's/^ //' > debian.bib

Handling of Citations inside Debian Science

Citation information should be injected into debian/upstream files.

The files are gathered in a daily cron job either via UpstreamMetadata gatherer or even in the gatherer for some science relevant projects in the gatherer of machine readable information of Blends and is injected into UDD for further use. To make sure that all the information is correct the importer job is doing some verification by creating a BibTeX file and an according LaTeX file which is processed through pdflatex and creates a PDF from all citations attached to Debian packages. This service is currently not intended to be used as some real information to work with but just a proof that the citation information inside debian/upstream files is valid. You can find the resulting files here:

As said above these files are created to prove the validity of the citation information but nothing will stop you from using the files for some other purpose. If you want to create the BibTeX file yourself you can login to alioth and say:

  • psql service=udd -c "SELECT * FROM bibtex()" | sed -e 's/ *+$//' -e 's/^ //' > debian.bib