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On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:22:37 +0200 |
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Stefan Schweizer <genstef@g.o> wrote: |
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> Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > For this stuff, add a comment to the metadata.xml file. Don't do it |
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> > in this less than obvious way. |
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> arch teams for example will still contact me then for stabilizing, I |
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> do not want that. jeeves and herdstat do not support comments and the |
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> metadata is not often read directly. |
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If you don't care whether a package is stable or not, just let the arch |
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team go ahead and do what they need to do to stabilise when they wish |
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to. The role of package maintainer has nothing to do with |
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stabilisation, which is the preserve of the arch teams. |
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> > The maintainer must still be someone with a |
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> > gentoo email. |
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> is that written down somewhere? I was under the impression that it is |
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> allowed and have seen it used for example |
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> in /usr/portage/www-client/links/metadata.xml |
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You'll notice that there are two maintainer blocks in there, one for |
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the non-gentoo "third-party" maintainer, and one for the Gentoo dev who |
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proxies - the "official Gentoo" maintainer. There are several packages |
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like this. |
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What I'm conerned about is packages that have no Gentoo maintainer, |
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something that should obviously never happen for packages in the |
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official tree. |
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Kevin F. Quinn |