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Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: |
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> Christian Faulhammer wrote: |
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>> Petteri Rýty <betelgeuse@g.o>: |
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>>> I did see anything in devmanual taking a stance on this issue: |
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>>> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html |
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>>> What do you think about adding a sentence or two saying that you |
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>>> should not use version numbers in DESCRIPTION? This could even be |
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>>> added to repoman. |
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>> Is this iussue that grave, that we repoman needs to whine about it? |
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>> What is the issue with it (apart from p.g.o, eix and friends not |
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>> displaying correct information) exactly? |
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>> V-Li |
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> Perhaps we should just move DESCRIPTIONs to metadata. |
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No |
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> That would make it |
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> impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove some duplication. |
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It isn't duplicated, description is per ebuild and could change, |
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metadata is for the package as whole. |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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