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From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
To: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Linux Distributions
	<openembedded-devel@openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Removing MAINTAINER field from recipes
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:58:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160384282.5741.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74d0deb30610090140g40716743k35a2cddb555018d4@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 10:40 +0200, pHilipp Zabel wrote:
> On 10/9/06, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> wrote:
> > MAINTAINER would still exists but would become a distro variable so
> > distros would still use it to set the maintainer of distributed packages
> > but since this is usually a distro contact, setting it in a distro.conf
> > file shouldn't be a problem (and it can be overridden on a per package
> > basis MAINTAINER_pn-linux-opnzaurus = "").
> 
> Does this mean we'll have additional per-distro .conf files
> which contain hundreds of MAINTAINER_pn-foo variables?

That is something for a distro to decide. In most cases, I see a distro
wanting a single point of contact so whilst it would be possible, I
don't see it happening. All current distros try and setup a single point
of contact as far as I know.

Richard




  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-09  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-08 21:33 [RFC] Removing MAINTAINER field from recipes Koen Kooi
2006-10-09  8:14 ` Graeme Gregory
2006-10-09  8:21 ` Richard Purdie
2006-10-09  8:26   ` Graeme Gregory
2006-10-09 16:03     ` Koen Kooi
2006-10-10  7:55       ` Graeme Gregory
2006-10-09  8:40   ` pHilipp Zabel
2006-10-09  8:58     ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2006-10-10 15:34   ` Marcin Juszkiewicz
2006-10-13  0:28     ` Jamie Lenehan
2006-10-13 13:22       ` Marcin Juszkiewicz
2006-10-14  1:59         ` Jamie Lenehan
2006-10-10 15:39 ` Graeme Gregory
2006-10-10 16:08   ` Paul Sokolovsky

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