Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION

[Petteri Räty]

Tiziano Müller kirjoitti:
> Petteri Räty schrieb:
>> Currently there are some ebuilds in the tree that use ${PV} in
>> description which leads to results like:
>>      Description:         Documentation (including API Javadocs) for
>> Java SDK version 1.6.0
>>
>> I did see anything in devmanual taking a stance on this issue:
>> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html
>> What do you think about adding a sentence or two saying that you should
>> not use version numbers in DESCRIPTION? This could even be added to repoman.
>
> As far as I understood it, having DESCRIPTION in the ebuild itself
> (rather than in metadata) means that DESCRIPTION is allowed to change
> between versions, whether "automatically" by using a version-dependent
> variable or "manually".
>
> I'd therefore only add a note in the devmanual which recommends not to
> use ${PV} (and ${P}, ...) in the DESCRIPTION.
>
> Cheers,
> Tiziano
>

But is there anything that makes use of version specific DESCRIPTION atoms?

Regards,
Petteri