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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 2021 16:48:53 +0100
From:      Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Luca Pizzamiglio <pizzamig@freebsd.org>, Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports mailing list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What to do with the "Created by" header comments?
Message-ID:  <ba42fcd4-a49d-095e-36dc-88307d98e26e@FreeBSD.org>
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On 09/11/21 16:33, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:
> Hi Mel,
> 
> IIRC the "# Created by: ..." line was added to give credits to the original
> creator of the port.
> I'm not sure if this is still a thing.
> 

As far as I remember (please correct me if I'm wrong) it's deprecated 
and should not be added to newly created ports, also because the 
information is easy to find in the repo history.

I don't think there is any rule for existing ones, I personally leave 
them there unless requested to do anything different.

-- 
Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>



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