Steven J. Long <sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > collect your thoughts into a forum post
You are right: Not everybody on this list is interested in all technical details, so it is perhaps better to shift this discussion to the forums. I have opened the topic https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7593700.html#7593700 with a summary of the various suggestions (and a very rough sketch of their advantages/disadvantages). > Sounds like something that repoman could check, once a GLEP and impl > are in place. The problem I meant is that repoman is no able to check it: It can be completely reasonable that the value of that metadata variable is unchanged, that is, repoman should not even spit a warning in this case. Unless one "adds" an artificial mechanism (like encoding the revision into the variable name or variable content) which *forces* the maintainer to change/check that variable. But any such mechanism I can think of is inconvenient and possibly confusing.
