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 also be outdated.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 mostly redundant with svn > or git history, can take up several lines in the PKGBUILD and can > become irrelevant after significant refactoring. > > What are your thoughts on dropping all these seemingly unnecessary > lines from our official PKGBUILDs? Anyone feel strongly about keeping > them (and why)? > I agree with your reasoning and am all in favor. Sven >