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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: wen heping <wenheping2000@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 07:57:21AM +0000, wen heping wrote:
> > This line was added wrongly; few years ago ports were sweeped to
> > remove direct author attribution, and now you're adding them back.
> > Please don't.
> 
> This author is upstream author,

It does not matter.  Author information is typically available on the
website, and that's what WWW: line is for.

(By this logic, every piece of software has author(s), shall we mention
them in every port? :-)

> I remember some years ago we remove the line of ports author message?

We removed old/superfluous/bogus attribution, which most often was some
"ported by" thing, yes, but not just limited to that.

(When upstream authors want their attribution to be more visible, they
should fix their websites (WWW: line), not abuse pkg-descr for this.)

./danfe