Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Removing maintainer/contributor lines from PKGBUILDs

2020-08-25 Thread Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 01:11, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: > The information cannot be replaced and is not redundant. But it might be > that no one actually cares about the information. On the other hand, is > it bothersome to have it there anyway? All right, I'm withdrawing my

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Removing maintainer/contributor lines from PKGBUILDs

2020-08-25 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 04:46:36PM -0400, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 15:58:40, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote: > > I am not sure these serve any purpose. The maintainer line duplicates > > information available from the archweb or

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Removing maintainer/contributor lines from PKGBUILDs

2020-08-25 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 8/25/20 3:58 PM, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote: > I am not sure these serve any purpose. The maintainer line duplicates > information available from the archweb or aur interfaces and could > also be outdated. The contributor lines are mostly redundant with svn > or git history,

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Removing maintainer/contributor lines from PKGBUILDs

2020-08-25 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 21:59 Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> wrote: > I am not sure these serve any purpose. The maintainer line duplicates > information available from the archweb or aur interfaces and could > also be outdated. The contributor lines are

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Removing maintainer/contributor lines from PKGBUILDs

2020-08-25 Thread Lukas Fleischer via arch-dev-public
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 15:58:40, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote: > I am not sure these serve any purpose. The maintainer line duplicates > information available from the archweb or aur interfaces and could > also be outdated. The contributor lines are mostly redundant with svn > or

[arch-dev-public] [RFC] Removing maintainer/contributor lines from PKGBUILDs

2020-08-25 Thread Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public
I am not sure these serve any purpose. The maintainer line duplicates information available from the archweb or aur interfaces and could also be outdated. The contributor lines are mostly redundant with svn or git history, can take up several lines in the PKGBUILD and can become irrelevant after