On Monday 26 December 2005 16:11, Marcelo Góes wrote: > ``maintainer`` can contain the tags ``name`` and ``email``, indicating the > person/organization responsible for upstream maintainership of the package.
What if upstream is more than one person, but less than an organization? What if there is more than one upstream such as for gentoo-sources, where the maintainer of each of the patchsets could be considered an upstream? > ``remote-id`` should specify a type of package identification tracker and > the identification that corresponds to the package in question. > ``remote-id`` should make it easier to index information like its > identification in freshmeat or its cpan identification. if this is to be subject to automated processing, shouldn't there be a registry of valid "type" values maintaining a definition of what the value of the element corresponds to for each type? -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia #
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