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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:09:50
Message-Id: 46A5EADA.1090805@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION by "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)"
1 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) kirjoitti:
2 > Christian Faulhammer wrote:
3 >> Petteri Rýty <betelgeuse@g.o>:
4 >
5 >>> I did see anything in devmanual taking a stance on this issue:
6 >>> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html
7 >>> What do you think about adding a sentence or two saying that you
8 >>> should not use version numbers in DESCRIPTION? This could even be
9 >>> added to repoman.
10 >> Is this iussue that grave, that we repoman needs to whine about it?
11 >> What is the issue with it (apart from p.g.o, eix and friends not
12 >> displaying correct information) exactly?
13 >
14 >> V-Li
15 >
16 > Perhaps we should just move DESCRIPTIONs to metadata. That would make it
17 > impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove some duplication.
18 >
19 > Marijn
20 >
21 >
22
23 <shortdescription>
24 </shortdescription>
25
26 sounds like something for EAPI-1
27
28 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186454
29
30 Regards,
31 Petteri

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[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION "Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@g.o>