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Jan Kundrát: |
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> Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> > I have a very quick proposal: why don't we move the packages' homepage |
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> > in metadata.xml (since it's usually unique for all the versions) |
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> I believe the reason was that HOMEPAGE might change with new versions |
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> and that metadata.xml didn't (doesn't?) support version-specific data. |
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In most (nearly all?) cases a HOMEPAGE change does also affect older versions. |
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Does someone have an example where older versions stay at an old homepage |
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and newer versions moved to a new homepage? Which (and how many) packages would be affected by that? |
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If this does affect a larger number of packages (i doubt so) we might add something like this: |
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<link type="homepage:old">http://package.oldbarfoo.org</link> |
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or we allow more than 1 homepage item to be specified of which we can |
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use the title attribute to describe for which versions this homepage |
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item applies. Anyways, all of these would only be quick hacks for a |
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rather short timeframe which it takes to stable a new version and remove |
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the older one. |
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In general I do like that proposal, especially the addition of further |
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links for bug trackers, forums, irc-channels, gentoo-specific |
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documentation and so on. |
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Tobias |
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