On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:22:54 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
with pacman -Qi or pacman -Si we show the person who packaged it, but not the maintainer. This makes it harder to get in touch with the right person then it should be. Often I will start talking to the packager (or assign a ticket to him), only to have that person to tell me "hey, i'm just the guy who packaged it, you should really talk to $foo"
Shouldn't we put the maintainer also in the pacman output?
Dieter
Would be nice. But the problem is we don't have this information. Afaik we had a discussion about this a long time ago. At first we would need a new variable defined within a PKGBUILD. E.g.: maintainers=('Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@archlinux.org>' 'Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.org>') makepkg would need to put that into the .PKGINFO file and repo-add needs to put these information into the db files. I would really like to have this feature, but obviously there were some concerns; otherwise it would have been implemented. ;-) But I don't remember anything. Afaik I brought this up when we regularly lost all maintainer information. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre