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From: John Myers <electronerd@electronerdia.net>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:50:33 -0800
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On Monday 26 December 2005 16:11, Marcelo G=F3es wrote:
> ``maintainer`` can contain the tags ``name`` and ``email``, indicating the
> person/organization responsible for upstream maintainership of the packag=
e.

What if upstream is more than one person, but less than an organization? Wh=
at=20
if there is more than one upstream such as for gentoo-sources, where the=20
maintainer of each of the patchsets could be considered an upstream?

> ``remote-id`` should specify a type of package identification tracker and
> the identification that corresponds to the package in question.
> ``remote-id`` should make it easier to index information like its
> identification in freshmeat or its cpan identification.
if this is to be subject to automated processing, shouldn't there be a=20
registry of valid "type" values maintaining a definition of what the value =
of=20
the element corresponds to for each type?

=2D-=20
#=20
# electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia
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