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

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 05:49, Alec Warner wrote:
> Christian Parpart wrote:
> > 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.
>
>   So have versioned metadata, it's XML afterall.

LONGDESCRIPTION in metadata.xml is versioned (and accepts portage atoms).

Paul

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