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From: Michele Balistreri <brain@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: metadata.xml extensions
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:35:30
Message-Id: 0FE1BC93-AD42-11D7-8214-0003935414DA@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: metadata.xml extensions by Patrick Kursawe
1 I like the idea, i dont think packages change their license so often
2 so, we could either:
3 - Keep the metadata just of the current stable version of the package
4 or
5 - Allow to specify multiple license
6
7 Personally i think keeping the metadata only of the current stable
8 ebuild is the best way, other ebuilds could just contain building-data
9 and this would be nice also cause would be clear which is the current
10 "adviced" version of certain package (for this porpouse i propose to
11 specify the version of the current stable package in the metadata.xml
12 file)
13
14 Giovedì, 3 Lug 2003, alle 12:03 Europe/Rome, Patrick Kursawe ha scritto:
15
16 > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:59:21AM +0200, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
17 >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0005.html
18 >>
19 >> comments are welcome.
20 >
21 > How to handle the situation when a package changes its license and
22 > older versions are distributed unter a different license than newer
23 > versions?
24 >
25 > Just wondering,
26 >
27 > Patrick
28 > <mime-attachment>
29 Michele Balistreri
30 Gentoo Developer, KDE Team
31 Rome, Italy
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