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From: Julien Allanos <dju@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Put DESCRIPTION HOMEPAGE and LICENSE in another place
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:32:00
Message-Id: 20050811102814.kwd4u2j02skswwoc@home.dju.elegiac.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Put DESCRIPTION HOMEPAGE and LICENSE in another place by Alec Warner
1 Quoting Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>:
2 > Christian Parpart wrote:
3 >> On Thursday 11 August 2005 02:04, Carlos Silva wrote:
4 >> [...]
5 >>
6 >>> What do you think of this?
7 >>
8 >> I once asked for a better place (namely metadata.xml), but got
9 >> corrected with
10 >> the following reason:
11 >>
12 >> HOMEPAGE/LICENSE/DESCRIPTION might change over version bumps; not just the
13 >> revision/version number, also the description reflecting major behavior
14 >> changes from version 0.1 to 1.0 for example;
15 >> The license may change for numerous reasons;
16 >> The homepage may change as version 1.2.4.x might be available on $URL/a and
17 >> 1.4.8.y might be available on $URL/b (and though maybe even slotted); both
18 >> can still be the same package; though slotted, and with differend homepage
19 >> URL.
20 >>
21 > So have versioned metadata, it's XML afterall.
22
23 Ebuild's HOMEPAGE/LICENSE/DESCRIPTION could override those in metadata.xml if
24 necessary.
25
26 >> But anyway, I feel that these cases in realworld are really very
27 >> rare (except
28 >> the the license-change thingy)
29 >>
30 >> just my thoughts,
31 >> Christian Parpart.
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33 Julien Allanos (dju`)
34 Gentoo Developer (web-apps)
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