Baho Utot <baho-u...@columbus.rr.com> wrote: > What if I use abs to fetch the entire core/extra and then build and > maintain that tree? Am I now the maintainer and everyone else > contributors?
I'll be honest: I rolled my eyes when I read that. If you began to independently maintain all of those packages (update them yourself, modify the PKGBUILDs, etc) then you would be the "maintainer" to anyone retrieving them from you and you would be expected to deal with any errors arising from what you changed. If you do not distribute them, then "maintainer" makes no sense at all. If you simply copy the PKBUILDs from abs occasionally without adding your own modifications, then you're not really a maintainer of the PKGBUILD, but if you decide to distribute binary versions yourself then you would be the maintainer of those.
