From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 265681396D0 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25EFDE0D8F; Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay07.ispgateway.de (smtprelay07.ispgateway.de [134.119.228.100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0FC1E0D31 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [78.52.98.236] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtprelay07.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1dn99o-0002Gt-Jq for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:00:13 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Addition of a new field to metadata.xml To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: From: Sebastian Pipping Message-ID: <0bc5f1b6-cc95-d0c0-4fa1-847060dd7fb1@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:00:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Df-Sender: c3BpbmctZ2VudG9vQGJpbmVyYS5kZQ== X-Archives-Salt: c61177dd-a5c9-4ac8-87a5-5b8a25becf98 X-Archives-Hash: fafd83f8019a1115f02a18be157a3a55 On 01.06.2017 23:18, Jonas Stein wrote: > 2. Specification > ================ > A space separated list of the corresponding debian packages should be > written in the field > > > It should be NONE, if debian has no corresponding package. > UNSET or no field, if the creator of the ebuild did not set the field (yet). Please pick NONE or require absence eventually, but not multiple options. Else we're asking for inconsistent data from the beginning. > example: > app-arch/tar/metadata.xml > tar > > app-office/libreoffice-bin/metadata.xml > libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base > libreoffice-dev libreoffice-dmaths libreoffice-draw > libreoffice-evolution libreoffice-impress Since the difference between source and binary packages has already been brought up, please adjust "" some way to indicating if the text content is a source or a binary package (even if we don't end up supporting both) to be 100% clear. Otherwise people will mix it up, and may not even notice. Best Sebastian