I suggest to add <remote-id type="debian"> to the metadata.xml file as discussed on #dentoo-dev recently. It should contain the list of the equivalent debian package names, or a defined string for NONE and UNSET. There are many interesting applications, here just a few ideas: * can be used to embed screenshots from https://screenshots.debian.net in https://packages.gentoo.org/ * when writing/reading documentation which is written for debian like Linux distributions * scripts can automatically compare latest versions, critical bugs, from debian-like distributions and alert the interested maintainer or prepare statistics. A greasemonkey script can create a link in bugzilla and the maintainer can see open/solved bugs and the solutions on other distributions. * package names hardly differ between *buntu, mint, and debian so we cover a broad spectrum
As debian split packages, what will be the candidate? For example dev-libs/icu in debian is split in icu-devtools icu-devtools-dbg icu-doc libicu-dev libicu58 libicu58-dbg IMHO a reference to one of these two will be better, preferring the second https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/icu https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/icu
cat/foo installs on gentoo files A, B, C on debian it is foo -> A foo-dbg -> B foo-doc -> C foo-extras -> D Then we could write it as <remote-id type="debian"> foo foo-dbg foo-doc </remote-id>
There's no obvious assignee for this, so I'm assigning it to the reporter.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Upstream_remote-id_types has instructions if you wish to do this.
