On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Henning Garus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It does make sense, at least to me, to have your name and email > address in a PKGBUILD you currently maintain in AUR, even if you > didn't create it. However, I don't think there is any policy about > this. I have seen some "custom" tags, which I can't remember exactly > and of course much misuse of the maintainer tag - I am guilty of that > one myself. > > What one could do to prevent further misuse of the Maintainer tag > would be introducing a new tag like AUR-Maintainer and put it in the > wiki. Notice that this is just an example, I wouldn't be against > calling this different. It wouldn't stop the "Maintainer Tag problem" > all at once, but it might help reducing it.
I've never understood this rule, especially when I was enforcing it. Why aren't AUR maintainers allowed to use the maintainer tag? -- Callan Barrett
