Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:04:46 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful? Message-ID: <20040326040446.GB78344@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040326011325.4AA3B43D5D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <opr5eiuf0f8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <c3uoks$193u$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <4062FF7A.2040509@ciam.ru> <c3v3kn$1drs$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20040326011325.4AA3B43D5D@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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--VrqPEDrXMn8OVzN4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 06:13:21PM -0700, Robin Schoonover wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:07:35 +0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru> wrote: > >=20 > > > > MAINTAINER=3D Foo Bar <fbar@some.place> > > >=20 > > > What is the reason why it's not so for us? > >=20 > > When I committed a port with such a MAINTAINER line (or maybe Trevor > > did it for me), Satoshi pointed out that this was breaking his bento > > scripts. That was obviously quite some time ago and I think the > > bento scripts should be fixed to handle this. > >=20 >=20 > Or really, everything that might use it needs to be fixed. For example, > Bill Fenner's portsurvey is probably using it to email the announcements. > When sorting by maintainer I'd probably continue to sort by just the > email (trim off the actual name), since formatting and spellings of email > addresses tend to vary less. This is quite likely to be true. Also think about the various webpages that have mailto: links to maintainer addresses, etc. Kris --VrqPEDrXMn8OVzN4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAY6veWry0BWjoQKURAgcRAJ9gC8f97HmYrmT8H6TYf5xo5ihv2gCfcTQK 1RLvIFxtYTO3sh8OGFi2poE= =ImdD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VrqPEDrXMn8OVzN4--
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