[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-doc/abs-guide: metadata.xml ChangeLog

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:59:13 -0800
Tim Harder <radhermit@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 2013-01-27 Sun 15:06, Ryan Hill wrote:
> >If you have some kind of problem with this, I suggest you change the default
> >output of metagen.
> 
> I just find it annoying to have duplicate info for herds under the maintainer
> tag since tools like euscan and other scripts take that to mean a package has
> a separate maintainer and herd.
> 
> Anyway the docs mention that the maintainer tag is supposed to be used
> for individual maintainers besides herds, but I can see how that metagen
> help output can be confusing.

Well I'm just happy to discover I've been misreading it for 6 years.  I always
thought it was annoying but required because of herds that had different mail
aliases than the herd name (see video).  So, thanks.

We also had documentation in the developer handbook that was incorrect and
conflicted with what repoman enforced for a while, but I see that's been
removed.


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