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March 14th, 2008

So I ended up cleaning out some retired (~20) people from metadata.xml, where I found this interesting piece of metadata.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
<herd>kernel-misc</herd>
<maintainer>
  <email>crypto@gentoo.org</email>
  <name>Crypto herd</name>
</maintainer>
<maintainer>
  <email>masterdriverz@gentoo.org</email>
  <name>Charlie Shephered</name>
</maintainer>
</pkgmetadata>

And here the hint for all you people again: A DAMN HERD AIN’T NO MAINTAINER. SO IF YOUR HERD IS MAINTAINING A PACKAGE, PUT IT INTO <herd> and not into the <maintainer>. kthnxbye.

Gentoo ,

  1. Steve Dibb
    March 14th, 2008 at 14:47 | #1
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    That’s actually *really* common, from what I remember of going through a lot of metadata XML files. Or at least it used to be.

    I agree that it’s redundant, but I think there’s probably a lot more like that out there.

  1. March 14th, 2008 at 19:09 | #1
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