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On Tuesday 15 December 2009 10:19:00 Peter Volkov wrote: |
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> we will force all metadata.xml files have strict order of tags: first |
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> <herd/> then other tags. Currently there are about 200 ebuilds with |
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> different order http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279206#c4 . |
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> Hans's suggestion http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279206#c7 works |
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> but it is not nice and prohibits another order: herd, other tags, herd. |
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> Personally I'd kept dtd simple and forced ordering. |
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+1 ... i dont see any need/reason to have fields scattered |
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> So actually two questions here: |
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> 1. How should we fix dtd? |
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> 2. Are there any problems if we fix dtd first and let maintainers fix |
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> metadata.xml on bumps (iow, what will became broken if metadata.xml |
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> became not valid)? |
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write a script to fix the tree and then update the dtd |
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-mike |