I want to ask a question here.. I can't really distinguish the
difference between Maintainer and Contributor... I wasn't able to see it
on the AUR wiki.. So can someone enlighten me ?
Alper KANAT
http://raptiye.org
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
2008/7/9 Attila <attila@invalid.invalid>:
On Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2008 14:07 Hugo Doria wrote:
You can run `pacman -Si package` to get maintainer contact ou use the
web interface on archlinux.org.
The question is not so stupid as it sounds in the first moment
because "pacman -Si" shows only the packager but we all speaks even from the
maintainer. And i must say that this point is for me not clear too and i will
give you a example with firefox-i18n:
pacman -Si firefox-i18n:
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
First lines in the PKGBUILD (i delete only the email addresses):
# Maintainer: Thomas Baechler
# Contributor: Jaroslaw Swierczynski
# Contributor: Michal Hybner
And now? Result for me: Having the abs tree on my disk (or looking at
repos.archlinux.org) is the best solution to find out who maintains a
package.-)
The best way to know who _currently_ maintains a package
is looking at archlinux.org/packages/
because new maintainer may not always change the # Maintainer tag right away.
Note: A "pacman -Si firefox" shows this "Packager : Unknown Packager".
