Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> Christian Faulhammer wrote:
>> Petteri Rýty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>> I did see anything in devmanual taking a stance on this issue:
>>> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html
>>> What do you think about adding a sentence or two saying that you
>>> should not use version numbers in DESCRIPTION? This could even be
>>> added to repoman.
>> Is this iussue that grave, that we repoman needs to whine about it?
>> What is the issue with it (apart from p.g.o, eix and friends not
>> displaying correct information) exactly?
>
>> V-Li
>
> Perhaps we should just move DESCRIPTIONs to metadata.
No
> That would make it
> impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove some duplication.
>
It isn't duplicated, description is per ebuild and could change,
metadata is for the package as whole.
lu
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