--- glep-0046.txt 2008-01-21 00:49:56.000000000 -0800 +++ glep-0046.txt.mine 2008-01-21 08:34:40.769717090 -0800 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 26-Dec-2005 -Post-History: 26-Dec-2005, 5-Mar-2006, 20-Jan-2007 +Post-History: 26-Dec-2005, 5-Mar-2006, 20-Jan-2008 Abstract ======== @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ ``name`` should contain a block of text with upstream's name, is mandatory and can only appear once. -``email`` should contain an e-mail address in the format foo@... +``email`` should contain an e-mail address in the format ``foo@...``. ``changelog`` should contain a URL prefixed with ``http://`` or ``https://`` where the location of the upstream changelog can be found. @@ -130,8 +130,9 @@ ======================= No changes are necessary to existing ``metadata.xml`` files. Information -in the new tags is not be mandatory. Any sane tool that currently -handles ``metadata.xml`` files will simply ignore unrecognised elements. +in the new tags is not be mandatory. Tools that currently read +``metadata.xml`` files may break if written poorly; well written tools +should just ignore the additional elements. Copyright =========