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From: Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid <herd> in metadata.xml
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:34:26
Message-Id: 200705110027.36255.bangert@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid in metadata.xml by Doug Goldstein
1 Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> said:
2 > Thilo Bangert wrote:
3 > > All packages with <herd>maintainer-needed</herd> will be moved to
4 > > <herd>no-herd</herd>.
5 >
6 > maintainer-needed is different from no-herd. no-herd is valid when a
7 > dev is maintaining a pkg outside of a herd. no-herd is not valid for
8 > when the package is entirely unmaintained, maintainer-needed would be a
9 > better tag for it. I would not make that change.
10
11 if that were so, we would need to document it.
12 from my reading of the current policies[1,2,3] <herd> is required and
13 either no-herd or in herds.xml, no-herd only being allowed if no herd
14 fits.
15
16 >
17 > I tried to fix up your list and
18
19 thanks
20
21 > found a handful of the packages not
22 > even in existence in the tree. Can you re-run this with a fully up to
23 > date tree?
24
25 funny - so why would cvs up not be enough? which packages? i was able to
26 find all packages on packages.gentoo.org
27
28 thanks
29
30 [1]http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/metadata/index.html
31 [2]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/index.xml
32 [3]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4

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Re: [gentoo-dev] invalid <herd> in metadata.xml Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o>