On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 04:43:54PM +0200, Robert Emil Berge wrote: > Den Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:57:03 +0800 > "Callan Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > > > I don't think it has any practical reason. It's just such a damn old > > rule nobody questions it. > > > It can't be that old. This is the first time I've heard of it. The > Contributor tag has a long history, from way before the AUR. It's from > the time when people just uploaded packages to an ftp server to > contribute, and then the devs would look at them when they had time, > and include it in the repo if they thought it made sense. Then the user > who first uploaded the package would be named as Contributor in the > PKGBUILD. If you look at the jack-audio-connection-kit and rosegarden > packages, you'll still see my name as Contributor, even though the > package has been in extra since 2004, and probably don't contain one > line of code from my origial PKGBUILDs. > I think it is wrong to put your own name in the Contributor field just > because you have adopted a package. I think the Maintainer field should > be used for that, since the one who has adopted a package, normal user > or TU, is in fact the Maintainer, and the one who should be contacted > if there's a problem with the package. > > Robert
I think you should be able to put whatever the hell you want in the comments of an unsupported PKGBUILD. I think this line would be cool: # Ruler of the Universe: Your Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
