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Subject: Re: What to do with the "Created by" header comments?
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To: Luca Pizzamiglio <pizzamig@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.

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Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>