[Rpm-metadata] xml update

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 22:10, seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > I can/will make this data magically (and configurably) appear from
> > existing apt-rpm files using a header extension. From an rpm-python
> > point of view, this is just another tag, so common metadata can
> > be entirely automated, streamlining maintenance.
> 
> fine - that doesn't matter to me all that much - my concern is we have
> packages right here today that need this. I'd like to have this metadata
> defined - at least for ver 1 before FC2 is released.
> 
> 
> > Yes, existence must be optional, with well defined default value if/when 
> > missing,
> > and permission to totally ignore the value until reliable 
> > implementations exist.
> 
> 
> great. Then let's start listing mandatory and optional 'common' fields
> and defining this specification more.

Oh absolutely. That's what I was getting to, just failed to express it
in a way everybody understands apparently :)

One set of fields which *must* be there for depsolvers to work, other
namespace for optional, apparently common data which depsolvers could
use.

	- Panu -