Wikidata:Property proposal/Debian Package Tracker ID

Debian source package (aka: Debian Package Tracker ID) edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Descriptionsource package identifier in the Debian Package Tracker
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainfree software (Q341)
Allowed values32 character Universally Unique Identifier
Example 1GNU Emacs (Q1252773)emacs
Example 2GNU Guix (Q18968627)guix
Example 3GNU Guile (Q1486208)guile-1.8, guile-2.0,guile-2.2 and guile-3.0
Example 4gnome-guile (Q105119744)gnome-guile
Planned usebegin to reference all GNU packages
Number of IDs in sourceone or several
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URLhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/$1
See alsoDebian stable package (P3442)
Applicable "stated in"-valueAn example with GNU Guix (Q18968627) >> source code repository : added https://salsa.debian.org/debian/guix with the following reference: stated in Debian (Q7715973), will add ThisPropertyID : guix

Motivation edit

This property is not limited to stable packages, is less verbose, and gives more information. Probably silently wanted by most programmers… It's also a reference to software no longer supported by Debian (example 4)… Genium. 20:27, Jan 30, 2021 (UTC+01:00)

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