From: David Shakaryan <omp@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:12:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A5ECAC.3060807@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f84pop$6nb$1@sea.gmane.org>
Tiziano Müller wrote:
> As far as I understood it, having DESCRIPTION in the ebuild itself
> (rather than in metadata) means that DESCRIPTION is allowed to change
> between versions, whether "automatically" by using a version-dependent
> variable or "manually".
Well, from what I understand, DESCRIPTION should generally stay the same
between different versions of the same package. While two versions of
the same package may have some slight differences, the general purpose
of the package should remain the same, and DESCRIPTION is after all just
a short general description. I don't see any/enough exceptions to
warrant all the duplication and unnecessary complexity.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-24 11:11 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 11:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2007-07-24 11:44 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-07-24 11:54 ` David Shakaryan
2007-07-24 12:04 ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 13:22 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 12:16 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 12:26 ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 13:09 ` Robert Buchholz
2007-07-24 13:18 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 13:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 13:46 ` Luca Barbato
2007-07-24 13:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 14:11 ` Luca Barbato
2007-07-24 14:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 14:46 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 13:36 ` Luca Barbato
2007-07-25 12:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-24 12:02 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 12:06 ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 12:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 12:18 ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 13:14 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 12:53 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-07-25 12:15 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-24 12:12 ` David Shakaryan [this message]
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