On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:59:13 -0800 Tim Harder <radher...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 2013-01-27 Sun 15:06, Ryan Hill wrote: > >If you have some kind of problem with this, I suggest you change the default > >output of metagen. > > I just find it annoying to have duplicate info for herds under the maintainer > tag since tools like euscan and other scripts take that to mean a package has > a separate maintainer and herd. > > Anyway the docs mention that the maintainer tag is supposed to be used > for individual maintainers besides herds, but I can see how that metagen > help output can be confusing. Well I'm just happy to discover I've been misreading it for 6 years. I always thought it was annoying but required because of herds that had different mail aliases than the herd name (see video). So, thanks. We also had documentation in the developer handbook that was incorrect and conflicted with what repoman enforced for a while, but I see that's been removed. -- gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets learn a language baby, it's that kind of place @ gentoo.org where low card is hunger and high card is taste
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