On 02/25/2010 02:41 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
On Thursday 25 February 2010 08:22:17 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Robin H Johnson wrote:
Metadata.xml should allow use of a<changepolicies> element. Within
the element, package maintainers should be able to describe how
non-maintainer changes to the package are handled.
Could we allow this element in the category metadata files, too?
Its value there would be the default for the category, with the
possibility to override it for individual packages.
Ulrich
How are you so sure that a general "rule" can apply to a whole category? E.g.
the x11-misc/ one. Which rule for non-maintainer changes are you going to
apply since every single developer is maintaining a x11-misc application? Same
for app-misc etc.
I think it would make more sense in herds.xml. Not sure about packages
with more than one herd though :) maybe use the stricter one?
This would definitely need some tool support for simple queries, to be
usable.
Vlastimil
