On 06/01/2017 06:09 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 23:18:22 +0200 > Jonas Stein <jst...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> A space separated list of the corresponding debian packages should be >> written in the field >> <remote-id type="debian"> </remote-id> > > Why space separated? > > Its already legal to specify the field multiple times, and it should > work better that way for consistency with things that can already parse > XML. > > That way there's no need to put an additional parser inside our XML > extraction. > > <remote-id type="debian">libfoo</remote-id> > <remote-id type="debian">libfoo-debug</remote-id> > > No? > > It also means general purpose XML formatting tools can keep it tidy, > _and_ sorted, without having to reinvent new tools. > +1. Otherwise sounds good. But if we do this for Debian, will there be movement to add in package names for rpm-based distros? Arch? BSD? Slackware? Where do we draw the line?
Will developers be expected to treat this like a mandated element? If not, which team will have authority to touch package metadata to make this change? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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