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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] publishing ebuilds via bugzilla - bug #279438
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:37:39
Message-Id: 200907281237.32459.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] publishing ebuilds via bugzilla - bug #279438 by "Maximilian Bräutigam"
1 On Dienstag 28 Juli 2009, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > recently, I have written an ebuild for the program sci-chemistry/gabedit
5 > and published it at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279438
6 >
7 > I am a chemist, so please excuse the following questions. ;)
8 > What will now happen with the published ebuild? Can I somehow help
9 > getting it to portage?
10 >
11 > Is the bugreport configured correctly or did I make a mistake, due to
12 > the fact that I am a noob in respect of writing ebuilds? I read many
13 > docs about publishing and writing ebuilds, I checked the ebuild using
14 > repoman, and really tried to do everything correctly.
15 >
16 > While checking the ebuild with repoman and reading the docs, I realized
17 > that I have to create a ChangeLog and a metadata.xml. Do I have to post
18 > them and the Manifest somewhere, too?
19 >
20 > Thank you very much in advance for your help.
21 >
22 > kind regards,
23 > der Max
24
25 well, bug wranglers will assign it to the right herd/dev and someone of that
26 group will post his/hers comments. From that point on - you will see.
27
28 I don't think that you need to attach a changelog - or manifest. Manifest is
29 easily generated so that can IMHO wait until the final version that goes to the
30 tree is found