On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I was wondering if we have space already, or if others would feel >>> strongly about making space for, maintainer notes in packages' >>> metadata.xml. >>> >> [snip] >>> >>> What I'm thinking of is having some sort of <maintainernotes> element, >>> but not a passive one that has to be tested for, rather something that >>> repoman would spit out on the terminal when doing a scan/full. >>> >>> Comments? >> >> Why don't we just encourage maintainers to add <!-- --> comments to >> metadata.xml? I'd love to have a new element if the data to be stored >> in that element would need to be parsed/categorized by external >> programs, but otherwise xml comments would work just fine. > > And have repoman scan/full print out all <!-- --> comments? I think > that's why Diego is suggesting a new XML tag. >
That's just the DTD not getting validated. We can just change the DTD and repoman won't complain about the XML being invalid. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
