On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 12:02:16AM +0200, Andre Osku Schmidt wrote: > Hello Arch, > > i'm doing (for fun) a PKGBUILD parser in javascript, and now as i was > testing it with random PKGBUILD files from AUR, i noticed that there > is more than one way people use to define authors... > (/usr/share/PKGBUILD.proto shows only "Contributor") > > till now i've found: > - Contributor > - Maintainer > - Author > > so i wonder what others should i parse ? > or could you/we make a standard ? > > cheers > .andre
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
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