Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

[Serkan Kaba]

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

I don't know if there are others but I can give one specific example,
sun-{jdk,jre-bin} where homepage differs in SLOT's
1.4 pointing to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/ , 1.5 to
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ , 1.6 to http://java.sun.com/javase/6/
and 1.7 will probably have something new.

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Sincerely,
Serkan KABA
Gentoo/Java
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