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On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 16:34 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 21 September 2005 16:18, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > I think the problem here was that longdescription was in an ebuild, but |
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> > was empty. |
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> > Also, packages.gentoo.org doesn't use this data, but rather just the |
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> > DESCRIPTION field in the ebuild, at least for the few that I checked |
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> > that have a longdescription in metadata.xml... |
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> I know it doesn't, that does not preclude that it was mainly meant for |
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> such purposes. There has even been a short expirmental package list based |
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> on xml/xslt which used it, but it's searching mode was way too slow, so |
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> it was abandoned. |
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> In any case a longdescription tag if present should not be empty. |
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> Paul |
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The list is actually longer than I thought. |
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Currently my code does: |
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description = xmldesc['en'] or xmldesc[None] or ebuild_desc |
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which is fine for packages, but categories do not have a fall-back |
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description without the metadata. I could have sworn there was a |
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category with an empty description but I can't find it now ;-) |
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-m |
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