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Hello, |
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this RFC is about the addition of a new field |
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<remote-id type="debian"> |
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to metadata.xml |
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The field should contain a list of the equivalent debian package names, |
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or a defined string for NONE or UNSET. |
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A feature request ticket was prepared here: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619132 |
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1. Motivation |
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Gentoo users and users of debian based distributions profit from linked |
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packages: |
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* can be used to embed screenshots from https://screenshots.debian.net |
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in https://packages.gentoo.org/ |
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* when writing/reading documentation which is written for debian like |
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Linux distributions |
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* scripts can automatically compare latest versions, critical bugs, from |
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debian-like distributions and alert the interested maintainer or prepare |
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statistics. A greasemonkey script can show a link in bugzilla and the |
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maintainer can see open/solved bugs and the solutions on other |
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distributions. |
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* package names hardly differ between *buntu, mint, and debian so we |
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cover a broad spectrum |
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* Users who switch from debian like systems to gentoo, or administrate |
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gentoo and debian like systems at the same time can find the |
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corresponding packages quickly |
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2. Specification |
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A space separated list of the corresponding debian packages should be |
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written in the field |
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<remote-id type="debian"> </remote-id> |
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It should be NONE, if debian has no corresponding package. |
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UNSET or no field, if the creator of the ebuild did not set the field (yet). |
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example: |
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app-arch/tar/metadata.xml |
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<remote-id type="debian">tar</remote-id> |
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app-office/libreoffice-bin/metadata.xml |
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<remote-id type="debian">libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base |
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libreoffice-dev libreoffice-dmaths libreoffice-draw |
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libreoffice-evolution libreoffice-impress</remote-id> |
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3. Backwards compatibility |
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Fully compatible, no negative side effects to expect. |
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4. Comments |
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What do you think? |
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Should we exclude translation packages, or just add them all? |
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Best regards, |
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Jonas Stein |
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