[Rpm-metadata] xml update

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 19:47, seth vidal wrote:
> > Hmm. Can we please have Priority in non-deb specific place? Rpm itself
> > doesn't support that but apt-rpm does. The priority support in apt-rpm
> > is clumsy at best (/etc/apt/rpmpriorities file) currently but for the
> > xml one could set it much more sanely per repository. Similarly apt-rpm
> > *could* use Suggests and Enhances, it just currently doesn't since that
> > info isn't available anywhere.
> 
> anything that is specific to a particular packaging tool will need to be
> prefaced by a namespace for that tool and should not affect other tools
> 
> so
> <apt-rpm:priority>1</apt-rpm:priority>  seems reasonable  for
> repositories generated by apt-rpm's mechanism

I agree on "what is specific to particular packaging tool" part BUT
things like priority and Enhances are general concepts which *could* be
used by other tools as well. Lets say redcarpet adds support for
priority.. and then we have two different entries for the thing, one for
apt-rpm and one for redcarpet, both having the same data. Oh and one
more place to present that in Debian world...

Tool-specific hacks to tool specific namespaces but useful data should
be generally available, I'd feel quite silly adding code to apt-rpm to
poke through say, redcarpet namespace for some bit of information. If
the packaging tool doesn't understand / support some general tag then
simply ignore it...

	- Panu -