On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 05:35:15 +0800 Ray Rashif <schivmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
Scripting/coding style has been discussed before. To use ${pkgver} instead of $pkgver is due to consistency. Technically, the braces enable one to append to variables eg. ${pkgver}alpha. Another camp would like double-quotes as well. If you remember, the reason for quotes on ${src,pkg}dir is the fact that no one knows which bloke keeps his local build dir named with spaces.
Quotes on ${src,pkg}dir ? I believe I haven't seen this, can you give an example?
To KIS, "# Maintainer:" for binary maintainer and "# Contributor:" for the following:
* A submitter of a package. * A _significant_ contributor to the content of the buildscripts including the PKGBUILD -- so how would one define "significant"? well, it's up to you. If a person does not own a package but has contributed a good deal to it via other means (comments on AUR), the owner _may_ choose to add that person to the list as well.
It's not supposed to be a big deal, so long as there's a way to contact someone.
I believe it was agreed and agreed again today that maintainer is not only for maintainers of binary packages but also for the maintainers of AUR packages. --Philipp