Re: [gentoo-dev] Put DESCRIPTION HOMEPAGE and LICENSE in another place

[Christian Parpart]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 02:04, Carlos Silva wrote:
[...]
> What do you think of this?

I once asked for a better place (namely metadata.xml), but got corrected with 
the following reason:

HOMEPAGE/LICENSE/DESCRIPTION might change over version bumps; not just the 
revision/version number, also the description reflecting major behavior 
changes from version 0.1 to 1.0 for example;
The license may change for numerous reasons;
The homepage may change as version 1.2.4.x might be available on $URL/a and 
1.4.8.y might be available on $URL/b (and though maybe even slotted); both 
can still be the same package; though slotted, and with differend homepage 
URL.

But anyway, I feel that these cases in realworld are really very rare (except 
the the license-change thingy)

just my thoughts,
Christian Parpart.

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