Re: [gentoo-dev] More info than DESCRIPTION

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 20 June 2003 01:49, Alastair Tse wrote:
> We had this discussion on gentoo-dev exactly a month ago, but as far as
> I know it didn't come to anything conclusive. The messages are in marc,
> although it is not the world's best mailing list archive, you can get
> the gist of the discussion:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=1&s=horrible+package+descr
>iptions&q=b
>
> I believe Seemant was suggesting some integration with freshmeat's
> database using something called pdsst (?). We just need some mapping
> from gentoo package name to freshmeat package name, and then some way to
> fill in the void. Although all talk no code makes my point rather
> ineffective. So I'll shut up :)
>

The possibility of long descriptions was added to the proposed metadata 
format, which also will contain the maintainers and herds of a package. Also 
the proposal moves the changelog to this metadata file. Unfortunately not 
many people seem interested in it.

Paul

ps. The proposal is on http://cvs.gentoo.org/~pauldv/metadata.html

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Paul de Vrieze
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