While some people already discovered the upstream metadata tags, there are only 8 ebuilds using them so far. Mostly I am to blame for that, since I forgot to send out a proper announcement. While all the required information can be found in the Developer Handbook [1], here is a short summary:
The upstream tags are meant as a way to track information about upstream, like: - the upstream status (can make treecleaners lives easier) - online documentation links (a shortcut for the user) - not-so-obvious contact/bug-reporting information - id of a hosting or indexing site (automated version bump checks) - their alignment (mostly chaotic-neutral ;-) An example (copied from GLEP 46 [2] itself): <upstream> <maintainer status="inactive"> <name>Foo Bar</name> <email>f...@bar.bar</email> </maintainer> <maintainer status="active"> <name>Foo Gentoo</name> <email>f...@gentoo.org</email> </maintainer> <changelog>http://foo.bar/changelog.txt</changelog> <doc lang="en">http://foo.bar/doc/index.html</doc> <doc lang="de">http://foo.bar/doc/index.de.html</doc> <bugs-to>https://bugs.foo.bar</bugs-to> <remote-id type="freshmeat">foobar</remote-id> <remote-id type="sourceforge">foobar</remote-id> </upstream> Please note: - the <maintainer> tag in <upstream> is only for specifying an upstream maintainer name and e-mail address and does not specify the ebuild maintainer (although it may be the same if you decide to become upstream). - the type attribute for <remote-id> is currently one of (freshmeat| sourceforge|cpan|vim), send a mail to gentoo-dev before adding additional sites - the data in the <remote-id> tags is an id which uniquely identifies the project on that site: - for type="vim": the script_id (example: 2586) - for type="freshmeat": the project name (example: aria2) - for type="sourceforge": the project name (example: liferea) - for type="cpan": the module name (example: Pod-Index) Regards, Tiziano [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4 [2]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0046.html -- Tiziano Müller Gentoo Linux Developer Areas of responsibility: Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor E-Mail : dev-z...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : F327 283A E769 2E36 18D5 4DE2 1B05 6A63 AE9C 1E30
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