[pacman-dev] pacman and maintainers

[Dan McGee]

On 10/16/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/16/07, Mateusz Jedrasik <m.jedrasik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I think it should be/would be nice if pacman could show who is the current
> > > maintainer of a particular package.
> > >
> > > It would make it a lot easier to contact them in case something is broken, not
> > > updated, or so.
> > >
> > > Currently one has to go to the lenghts of seeing cvsweb, downloading PKGBUILD,
> > > and searching for the maintainer in there, often (sometimes at least) ones
> > > who are no longer active.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> >
> > I feel like this is a bit of feature-creep if we were to do this, and
> > a bit too tied to the way Arch Linux uses pacman.
>
> Better suggestion - add a namcap rule that yells if the PACKAGER isn't
> set for a package, then we have all that stuff already in place.

Wow, I completely forgot about the packager field already there. Good call.

-Dan