Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] news: Support News-Item-Format 2.0
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 18:27:55
Message-Id: 22475.5664.551709.716317@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] news: Support News-Item-Format 2.0 by Zac Medico
1 >>>>> On Sat, 3 Sep 2016, Zac Medico wrote:
2
3 > If we wanted to be more strict about the input that we accept, we
4 > could limit the profile wildcard match to so that it only works if
5 > the format is 2.* and only supports a terminal /* since that's all
6 > that the spec says is supported.
7
8 Please do.
9
10 GLEP 42 says:
11 "In news item format 2.0, a terminal asterisk immediately following a
12 slash acts as a wildcard for any further path components, for example
13 default/linux/*."
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15 Ulrich