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On Friday 20 June 2003 01:49, Alastair Tse wrote: |
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> We had this discussion on gentoo-dev exactly a month ago, but as far as |
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> I know it didn't come to anything conclusive. The messages are in marc, |
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> although it is not the world's best mailing list archive, you can get |
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> the gist of the discussion: |
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> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=1&s=horrible+package+descr |
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>iptions&q=b |
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> I believe Seemant was suggesting some integration with freshmeat's |
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> database using something called pdsst (?). We just need some mapping |
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> from gentoo package name to freshmeat package name, and then some way to |
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> fill in the void. Although all talk no code makes my point rather |
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> ineffective. So I'll shut up :) |
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The possibility of long descriptions was added to the proposed metadata |
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format, which also will contain the maintainers and herds of a package. Also |
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the proposal moves the changelog to this metadata file. Unfortunately not |
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many people seem interested in it. |
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Paul |
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ps. The proposal is on http://cvs.gentoo.org/~pauldv/metadata.html |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv |
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