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Yaroslav proposed to use a file debian/bib which will be moved to /usr/share/bib/<pkgname>

''Pro:'' Format can be plain BibTeX; simple
''Con:'' Just a new file to process, no clear path how to use this file outside the installed package scope
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Audience (??) heavily discussed advantages to put the information into debian/copyright

Problems to work on in Debian Science

At Debian Science round table on DebConf 10 some problems where discussed which did not found an immediate solution. This pages tries to summarise the discussion to enable further discussion.

Problem 1: BibTeX files

Yaroslav Halchenko proposed a package named debian-bibliography which handles BibTeX input files in /usr/share/bib. There was much applause to this proposal but there was a question how the source of the BibTeX input should be stored. There were three competing suggestions:

debian/bib

Yaroslav proposed to use a file debian/bib which will be moved to /usr/share/bib/<pkgname>

Pro: Format can be plain BibTeX; simple Con: Just a new file to process, no clear path how to use this file outside the installed package scope

debian/control

Audience (??) heavily discussed advantages to put the information into debian/copyright

debian/upstream-metadata.yaml

Problem 2: More fine grained tasks

Problem 3: Giving credit to upstream

Problem 4: Enable pinning to defined versions of programs