879347 – [Future EAPI] Move HOMEPAGE and DESCRIPTION from ebuilds to metadata

Bug 879347 - [Future EAPI] Move HOMEPAGE and DESCRIPTION from ebuilds to metadata

Summary: [Future EAPI] Move HOMEPAGE and DESCRIPTION from ebuilds to metadata

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186454

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	PMS/EAPI (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	PMS/EAPI

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Blocks:	future-eapi
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Reported:	2022-11-03 14:53 UTC by Matt Turner
Modified:	2022-11-03 15:31 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2022-11-03 14:53:08 UTC

These two bits of metadata are constant for all versions of a package, except in  rare cases. We should move them to metadata.xml.

We already have <longdescription> and <upstream>. I'd suggest <description> and <upstream>::<homepage>.

Note that PMS says

> In addition, HOMEPAGE, [...] use dependency-style specifications to specify their values.

but I don't see any instances in ::gentoo of dependency-style specifications being used in HOMEPAGE.

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2022-11-03 15:31:46 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 186454 ***