On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 15:58:40, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote: > I am not sure these serve any purpose. The maintainer line duplicates > information available from the archweb or aur interfaces and could > also be outdated. The contributor lines are mostly redundant with svn > or git history, can take up several lines in the PKGBUILD and can > become irrelevant after significant refactoring. > > What are your thoughts on dropping all these seemingly unnecessary > lines from our official PKGBUILDs? Anyone feel strongly about keeping > them (and why)?
I don't feel strongly and would welcome a better system. One of the reasons against such a change that was brought in earlier conversations around this topic is that original contributors are hard to reconstruct after a package has been moved from the AUR to the official repositories or vice versa.
