https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1298

--- Comment #2 from Yev Bronshteyn <[email protected]> 2015-07-28 19:12:02 UTC 
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I'd advocate against having multiple versions of the spec for different use
cases. 

It might make sense to differentiate external packages from those with files.
An internal package should require a verification code, and an external package
should not be allowed to have files in it.

And I don't think an external package should require an external ID. Some
external packages may have download locations and versions, but not be in maven
or published in a source control (e.g. non-open-source freeware). 

External IDs, as proposed by bill, do seem like the ideal way of describing MVN
metadata, but there is other metadata for external packages that logically goes
along with it. Download location, originator, etc - all the things we associate
with a package, minus the file information.

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