"layman is missing a contact attribute"
Since the warning or phrase "layman is missing a contact attribute" has been googled a few times now I thought I might just clarify the meaning of this warning here:
Stuart requested that overlays should always have a contact email address as well as a useful description of the overlay contents. Since I believe both requirements are quite helpful from the users point of view I made these attributes mandatory for all overlays in layman-1.0.7. Layman will now simply reject overlay definitions without the required information. The new version is still marked unstable and will remain that way until the overlays team managed to complete all necessary information in the global list of overlays.
What can you do if you find that behaviour annoying? Simply run layman
using the new -k flag. It will then accept incomplete overlay
definitions. But if you happen to know a valid contact mail address
for one of the overlays that generate warnings, please send an email
to overlays@gentoo.org. This will help us to complete the global list
and stabilize the new layman version.
And yes, I'm going to keep the green leaves for news about layman :)
Posted at: 16:25 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo
