From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-dev+bounces-29054-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1JGJh1-0005oc-6Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:49:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50B83E02E7; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE382E02E7 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:49:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CD428D307 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:57:16 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ferdyx.org Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno.ferdyx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VvRyE3t2U7NW for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:57:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowcone (unknown [213.121.151.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825588D305 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:57:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:49:12 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 46: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml Message-ID: <20080119194912.3ccb9ef1@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <7c612fc60801190724lfe4895ne7860d4d93e9d038@mail.gmail.com> References: <fmssmd$jat$1@ger.gmane.org> <7c612fc60801190724lfe4895ne7860d4d93e9d038@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/0EUy2s=60TpyBI6KhgDF55i"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: fbb343aa-2e66-4869-b321-7f2bc96bc037 X-Archives-Hash: 0512fdf2f5348102c774f4b0a17c4d51 --Sig_/0EUy2s=60TpyBI6KhgDF55i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:24:53 +0100 "Denis Dupeyron" <calchan@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008 2:07 PM, Tiziano M=C3=BCller <dev-zero@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Your oppinion? >=20 > Would this be the right time to discuss about moving other variables > to metadata.xml ? How about HOMEPAGE, DESCRIPTION and LICENSE ? Those > hardly change and if they ever do we can restrict them to specific > versions. I know there could be technical hurdles, but what do you > think of the idea at least ? At least LICENSE is no go, since the package manager needs it. Having DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE available to the package manager even when XML goes splat is probably useful too... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/0EUy2s=60TpyBI6KhgDF55i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHklQ796zL6DUtXhERAs/RAJ9VHBxnabG3SsAaANZ+dWrGUtSzNgCgzJVM WNHRBGi2u8j7NlZuepvRhfs= =HY0C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/0EUy2s=60TpyBI6KhgDF55i-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list