[Rpm-metadata] updateinfo.xml type

[Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett]

Hi guys,

We (SUSE) are trying to unify our patch terminology, and also to
separate better the update categories we have.

Draft: http://en.opensuse.org/Maintenance/Code11/Terminology

I have been trying to see how can we incorporate this into the metadata,
so I have been looking into Fedora10 patches?

<update from="updates at fedoraproject.org" status="stable" type="bugfix"
version="1.4">

I also saw "newpackage" and "enhancement" ( I ignore all possible values )

Therefore, it seems type, represents the category or "Why is there an
update?" part of the terminology.

However, on the SUSE repos, we have been using this field as a
replacement for the old "category" field:
"security", "recommended". Which is the first part (Severity Rating -
how urgent is the update ?).

Do you have any suggestion how to converge in this field, and how it
would be possible to support both concepts?

Duncan