On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:03:10 +0100 Óscar García Amor via arch-general <arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > When a user submit a package to AUR must follow package guidelines. > There is an interesting point that says that in the top of PKGBUILD > you must respect the previous contributors [1] and credit them (if > any). > > I'm surprised that this is not respected by the trusted users when > they pick an arbitrary package that is maintained in AUR and upload it > to the community repository without crediting anyone of past > maintainers. I saw this course of acting in several packages and don't > like to me. It seems to me a total lack of respect towards the person > or people who have been keeping the package so far. > > If users of the AUR are required to have a minimum of netiquette, more > should be required of TUs. > > Greetings. > > [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines > Specifics? I know there's quite a few cases where TUs don't even look at the AUR and just write their own PKGBUILDs from scratch, in which case there aren't any previous contributors.
