Re: [gentoo-dev] SRC_URI in metadata.xml

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Corentin Chary <iksaif@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò
> <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu> wrote:
>> On 10/08/2012 13:05, Corentin Chary wrote:
>>> Right, our proposal is not here to replace SRC_URI, it's here to fix
>>> the cases where SRC_URI can't be sanely used to guess new upstream
>>> versions (strange mangling rules, unbrowsable directories, etc...).
>>
>> Yes I guess Jeroen was just saying why we shouldn't abandon it as Gilles
>> proposed.
>>
>> FWIW for the rest it feels right to me. Although this starts to add up
>> to the reasons why at least metadata.xml should be validated by schema,
>> and not DTD.
>
> Maybe .. We plan to use <watch xmlns="http://euscan.iksaif.net"> to
> avoid editing metadata.dtd (for now).
> What do you think about format propositions ? Current format looks
> like what was given in the examples, but mgorny feels that something
> more xmlish would be better.

If you want metadata.dtd patched; please file a bug against www@ and
someone will look at it (you may have to poke us a few times... ;))

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