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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
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Subject: Re: Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful?
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:01:35AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> This thread is the best example of a bikeshed that I've seen in a long
> while. It's also a complete waste of time. Changing the MAINTAINER field
> in the Makefiles will break a lot of tools, and provide no benefit. If

If it breaks, it will need to be fixed. We can't not do things
because things might break.

Edwin

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