It would be nicer yet to acknowledged the original contributor with something like "Original Contributor". I know it has been odd to discover a PKGBUILD I wrote years ago show up with someone else's name on it !! Very best regards; Bob FInch On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@gmail.com>wrote:
stefan-husmann@t-online.de wrote:
What should I add myself as, when adopting a package, if not using the
Maintainer tag? "Contributor" maybe?
Yes!
Actually, I just read a wiki entry[1] on this which clears things up.
# Maintainer: the maintainer responsible for this pkg in the official repositories # Contributor: the person who wrote the first PKGBUILD for this package
So I shouldn't add myself at all to packages I adopt. :o /me goes to update his adopted packages.
---------------- [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS_PKGBUILD_Explained