It would be nicer yet to acknowledged the original contributor with something like "Original Contributor".
I know it has been odd to discover a PKGBUILD I wrote years ago show up with someone else's name on it !! Very best regards; Bob FInch On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Evangelos Foutras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What should I add myself as, when adopting a package, if not using the >>> Maintainer tag? "Contributor" maybe? >>> >>> >> >> Yes! >> > > Actually, I just read a wiki entry[1] on this which clears things up. > > # Maintainer: the maintainer responsible for this pkg in the official > repositories > # Contributor: the person who wrote the first PKGBUILD for this package > > So I shouldn't add myself at all to packages I adopt. :o > /me goes to update his adopted packages. > > ---------------- > [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS_PKGBUILD_Explained >
