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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:27:18
Message-Id: 200512271624.24309.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml by "Marcelo Góes"
1 On Tuesday 27 December 2005 01:11, Marcelo Góes wrote:
2 > Fellow Gentooers,
3 >
4 > Here is a draft of an enhancement proposal that should allow upstream
5 > information to be included in metadata.xml:
6 >
7 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~vanquirius/glep-0099.txt
8 >
9 > It is authored by ciaranm and me (vanquirius).
10 > Please comment :-).
11
12 What is the reason for having an upstream tag? Wouldn't it be easier to just
13 name the tags properly. And what about just using a general attribute tag
14 like <meta name="upstreammaint" value="foo@×××.com"/>
15
16 Besides this, is it really useful to put this information in the metadata.xml
17 file?
18
19 Paul
20
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