Re: package maintainers vs owners

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi!

David Brownlee wrote:

>       Some package maintainers would like anyone else who wants to
>       change the package to check with them first, while others are
>       happy to have anyong update the package, but are available as
>       a "in case you have questions" facility.
> 
>       I'd like to suggest we add a new pkgsrc value "OWNER" for
>       the first, and leave MAINTAINER for the second.
> 
>       pkglint would be updated to ensure a package had one or the
>       other set.
> 
>       see previous discussion results at:
> 
>       http://wiki.netbsd.se/MAINTAINER
> 
>       So far I've had two positive responses to this suggestion.
> 
> -- 
>               David/absolute       -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --

Why not just:

# Package owner:
MAINTAINER= blah%blah.bl@localhost

# Please contact me with any non-trivial changes before commit!
MAINTAINER= blah%blah.bl@localhost

--
Adam