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

Sun May 9 05:19:33 EDT 2010

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Calvin McAnarney <csm at gmx.us> wrote:
> Maintainer specifies the actual maintainer of a package, while
> Contributor refers to previous maintainers of the package.
>
> So when the maintainer of a package changes, the old one is listed as
> Contributor from there on and the new one as Maintainer.
>
> Source: Arch Packaging Standards[1] on the Archwiki
>
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Submitting_Packages_to_the_AUR
>

ah, thank you!

i was only reading http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD but
now noticed that APS (and more) is in related links at
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_Packages