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Bug 703626 - Suggested enhancement for Package and Category metadata.xml docs
Summary: Suggested enhancement for Package and Category metadata.xml docs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Devmanual (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Devmanual Team
URL: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-w...
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Reported: 2019-12-23 21:08 UTC by Ralph Seichter
Modified: 2020-01-14 20:36 UTC (History)
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Description Ralph Seichter 2019-12-23 21:08:11 UTC
I'd like to suggest stating more clearly in [1] that while pkgmetadata/maintainer has a 'type' attribute, upstream/maintainer does not allow that attribute. The information is given implicitly, but I think being explicit would be better. Thanks.

[1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/metadata/index.html


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Göktürk Yüksek archtester gentoo-dev 2020-01-09 01:01:58 UTC
https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual/pull/140
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2020-01-14 20:36:42 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=7dfbf123c416148170b43bae3bf7634edf08b8f1

commit 7dfbf123c416148170b43bae3bf7634edf08b8f1
Author:     Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-01-09 00:57:04 +0000
Commit:     Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-01-14 20:35:58 +0000

    ebuild-writing/.../metadata: clarify that upstream maintainer takes no 'type'
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/703626
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual/pull/140
    Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>

 ebuild-writing/misc-files/metadata/text.xml | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)