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From: R Hill <dirtyepic.sk@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Glep 46 Draft: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 06:38:41
Message-Id: dv0fg4$2ao$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New Glep 46 Draft: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml by "Marcelo Góes"
1 Marcelo Góes wrote:
2
3 > GLEP: 46
4 > Title: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml
5 > Version: $Revision: 1.1 $
6
7 i'm offline for the week, so ignore any of this that has already been discussed
8 in the meantime.
9
10 > This GLEP defines the following four tags for ``upstream``:
11 > ``maintainer``, ``changelog``, ``bugs-to`` and ``remote-id``, none of
12 > which are mandatory. Future GLEPs may extend this -- tools processing
13 > metadata.xml should ignore unrecognized elements.
14
15 i think a 'status' tag might also be handy to indicate if the package has an
16 active upstream or not. either a text field or a predetermined set of
17 possibilities ("active"/"inactive").
18
19 > ``maintainer`` can contain the tags ``name`` and ``email``, indicating
20 > the person or organization responsible for upstream maintainership of
21 > the package.
22
23 multiple maintainer tags allowed?
24
25 --de.
26
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Glep 46 Draft: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml "Marcelo Góes" <vanquirius@g.o>