repoman needs to check and enforce glep 31 compliance. Probably the easiest way to do this is via glep31check: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/toys/glep31check-0.3.3.tar.bz2
Created attachment 68828 [details, diff] glep31 python patch. Ignore the conversion of file.size to a failure please, I was lazy and hit it while I was doing some fixups :P
Created attachment 68830 [details, diff] round two dropped the file.size change
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