[aur-general] mistake in packaging guidelines

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Sat Jan 16 11:49:20 EST 2010


Excerpts from Ionut Biru's message of Sat Jan 16 17:25:45 +0100 2010:
> On 01/16/2010 06:12 PM, hollunder at lavabit.com wrote:
> > Please have a look here:
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Submitting_Packages_to_the_AUR
> >
> > It says:
> > Please add a comment line to the top of your PKGBUILD file that
> > follows this format. Remember to disguise your email to protect against
> > spam: # Contributor: Your Name<address at domain dot com>
> >
> > This is wrong and should read: # Maintainer: Your Name<address at
> > domain dot com>
> >
> you are correct.
> 
> > This is apparently missleading new and not so new AUR packagers, I just
> > had an argument about it.
> >
> > Imho somewhere on this page it should be mentioned that previous
> > maintainers and other contributors should be kept in the PKGBUILD file
> > as contributors as this also seems to be not very well known.
> >
> again you are correct. why not edit it and change to reflect the actual 
> thing? is a wiki... or is protected?
>
It's not possible for me to change it, hence this mail. Seems I forgot
to mention this..

Regards,
Philipp



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