On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Calvin McAnarney <csm@xxxxxx> wrote: > Maintainer specifies the actual maintainer of a package, while > Contributor refers to previous maintainers of the package. > > So when the maintainer of a package changes, the old one is listed as > Contributor from there on and the new one as Maintainer. > > Source: Arch Packaging Standards[1] on the Archwiki > > > [1] > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Submitting_Packages_to_the_AUR > ah, thank you! i was only reading http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD but now noticed that APS (and more) is in related links at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_Packages
