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On Monday 26 December 2005 16:11, Marcelo Góes wrote: |
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> ``maintainer`` can contain the tags ``name`` and ``email``, indicating the |
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> person/organization responsible for upstream maintainership of the package. |
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What if upstream is more than one person, but less than an organization? What |
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if there is more than one upstream such as for gentoo-sources, where the |
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maintainer of each of the patchsets could be considered an upstream? |
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> ``remote-id`` should specify a type of package identification tracker and |
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> the identification that corresponds to the package in question. |
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> ``remote-id`` should make it easier to index information like its |
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> identification in freshmeat or its cpan identification. |
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if this is to be subject to automated processing, shouldn't there be a |
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registry of valid "type" values maintaining a definition of what the value of |
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the element corresponds to for each type? |
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# electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia |
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