On Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2008 14:07 Hugo Doria wrote:

You can run `pacman -Si package` to get maintainer contact ou use the web interface on archlinux.org.

The question is not so stupid as it sounds in the first moment because "pacman -Si" shows only the packager but we all speaks even from the maintainer. And i must say that this point is for me not clear too and i will give you a example with firefox-i18n: pacman -Si firefox-i18n: Packager : Jan de Groot First lines in the PKGBUILD (i delete only the email addresses): # Maintainer: Thomas Baechler # Contributor: Jaroslaw Swierczynski # Contributor: Michal Hybner And now? Result for me: Having the abs tree on my disk (or looking at repos.archlinux.org) is the best solution to find out who maintains a package.-) Note: A "pacman -Si firefox" shows this "Packager : Unknown Packager". See you, Attila

I want to ask a question here.. I can't really distinguish the difference between Maintainer and Contributor... I wasn't able to see it on the AUR wiki.. So can someone enlighten me ? Alper KANAT http://raptiye.org Roman Kyrylych wrote:

2008/7/9 Attila :

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On Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2008 14:07 Hugo Doria wrote:

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You can run `pacman -Si package` to get maintainer contact ou use the web interface on archlinux.org. The question is not so stupid as it sounds in the first moment because "pacman -Si" shows only the packager but we all speaks even from the maintainer. And i must say that this point is for me not clear too and i will give you a example with firefox-i18n:

pacman -Si firefox-i18n: Packager : Jan de Groot

First lines in the PKGBUILD (i delete only the email addresses): # Maintainer: Thomas Baechler # Contributor: Jaroslaw Swierczynski # Contributor: Michal Hybner

And now? Result for me: Having the abs tree on my disk (or looking at repos.archlinux.org) is the best solution to find out who maintains a package.-)

The best way to know who _currently_ maintains a package is looking at archlinux.org/packages/ because new maintainer may not always change the # Maintainer tag right away.

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Note: A "pacman -Si firefox" shows this "Packager : Unknown Packager".