On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 09:45:36AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2016-12-08 at 21:39 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I've now written and submitted all of these patches. > > Might it be useful to have this list of names and descriptions in some > canonical packaged location, such that updating these tools is just a > version bump on a build dep, or even a runtime dep? Best case maybe it > would be possible to arrange for it to be a simple binNMU. > > (my first thought was a canonical online location, but these tools may > not want that at runtime and can't rely on it at build time, but maybe > that should be the source used for the package)
Packaging this data (section names, short descriptions, and long descriptions) seems like a great idea. Ideally, packages would have a Depends on this and use the data at runtime, rather than using a Build-Depends and compiling it in. With some care, such a package could also serve as the basis for the descriptions on packages.debian.org. - Josh Triplett
