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On 06.09.22 11:33, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hi, everyone. |
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> Since we've been standardizing some things in Gentoo lately, I was |
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> thinking we could try to get some media types registered with IANA. |
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> Particularly, I'm thinking of registering our Manifest format [1] as: |
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> text/vnd.gentoo.manifest |
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> and our new binary package container format [2] as: |
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> application/vnd.gentoo.gpkg |
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> However, the process is non-trivial and I'm not sure if the latter |
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> really qualifies, given we're only specifying the container and not |
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> the complete data format. To be honest, the specs are quite huge |
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> and I'd really appreciate some help grasping all of this. |
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> Perhaps ebuilds and eclasses would also qualify for registration. |
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> WDYT? |
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If you are happy to put in the effort, then I would go for it. Some |
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(most?) IANA registries are relatively easy to get in. I have some, but |
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somewhat little, experience with IANA due my XMPP background and I am |
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happy to assist. |
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- Flow |