[arch-general] PKGBUILD contributor, maintainer, author...

[vlad]

On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 01:09:46AM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 05/09/2010 01:02 AM, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:
> >Hello Arch,
> >
> >i'm doing (for fun) a PKGBUILD parser in javascript, and now as i was
> >testing it with random PKGBUILD files from AUR, i noticed that there
> >is more than one way people use to define authors...
> >(/usr/share/PKGBUILD.proto shows only "Contributor")
> >
> >till now i've found:
> >- Contributor
> >- Maintainer
> >- Author
> >
> >so i wonder what others should i parse ?
> >or could you/we make a standard ?
> >
> >cheers
> >.andre
> 
> in proto was fixed in the next version of pacman. The standard is
> Maintainer and Contributor.
> 
> Maintainer the current person who's maintaining the packager.
> Contributor past maintainers or persons who did contribute in a way
> to the build(if the current maintainer wants to add them)
Finally a clear definition!

> 
> -- 
> Ionut

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