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 ) id 1L6nvH-0004dn-T7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:09:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFABBE05B4; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AAAFE05B4 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.0.10] (unknown [78.176.93.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC1F642E6 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4932AC9D.2000401@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:09:17 +0200 From: Serkan Kaba Organization: Gentoo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081129) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future References: <49329690.7000409@gentoo.org> <1228053002.5981.12.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de> <1228057415.25651.105.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1228057415.25651.105.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=88AF65A2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 7d3e2b1e-42e7-4251-afb2-2658636a720e X-Archives-Hash: 6436bd6694675adcc3ee8521b7f19726 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Volkov yazm=C4=B1=C5=9F: > =D0=92 =D0=92=D1=81=D0=BA, 30/11/2008 =D0=B2 14:50 +0100, Tobias Scherb= aum =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: >> In most (nearly all?) cases a HOMEPAGE change does also affect older v= ersions. >> Does someone have an example where older versions stay at an old homep= age >> and newer versions moved to a new homepage? >=20 > Yes. This is quite a common case when one upstream stopped development > of the package and new developer took it. traceroute, flow-tools are > just examples from the top of my head. I remember I saw more such > things... >=20 > Also sometimes it's useful to have different HOMEPAGE for different > versions. >=20 >=20 > And in general, Diego. What are you trying to improve with this change? > The original intention was to separate common information from all > ebuilds into metadata.xml. But obviously, HOMEPAGE changes from ebuild > to ebuild. Now if intention is separate some information from ebuild > into metadata.xml then, please, tell me what is the criterion for such > information? Why not LICENSE? Currently I don't think this change worth > our efforts... >=20 LICENSE should definetely be avoided to be defined per-package. Upstream may decide to relicense new version of packages. - -- Sincerely, Serkan KABA Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkyrJ0ACgkQRh6X64ivZaI4EwCfWECIM3Hecu04yHCeoCKEJqki VMQAnj+aIeQ5Bf9cA0iQm/wT8U7hZWAV =3DwW6Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----