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From: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o>
To: "gentoo-dev@l.g.o" <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:39:31
Message-Id: 20070724133625.065963b7@luna.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o>:
2
3 > I did see anything in devmanual taking a stance on this issue:
4 > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html
5 > What do you think about adding a sentence or two saying that you
6 > should not use version numbers in DESCRIPTION? This could even be
7 > added to repoman.
8
9 Is this iussue that grave, that we repoman needs to whine about it?
10 What is the issue with it (apart from p.g.o, eix and friends not
11 displaying correct information) exactly?
12
13 V-Li
14
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16 http://www.gentoo.org/
17 http://www.faulhammer.org/
18 http://www.gnupg.org/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>