On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:41 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
Better use this document: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards The document you are referring to contains a couple of errors from a quick look at it. btw it seems trivial to me that a contributor is someone who did contribute to the PKGBUILD at some point. That is why the comment starts with 'contributor' and not with 'firstsubmitter' or so.... Ronald