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.

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[1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS_PKGBUILD_Explained