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proposal: removal of OWNER
Hi!
I propose removing the OWNER field, replacing this with MAINTAINER.
I think the intention of OWNER, when it was introduced, was to protect
packages deep in the infrastructure by emphasizing that they should
not be touched by non-MAINTAINERs.
However, no infrastructure package still sets OWNER, and MAINTAINER
defaults to pkgsrc-users a lot.
So I think it doesn't make sense to keep this difference alive and
propose removing OWNER, replacing it with MAINTAINER.
This will affect the following packages:
comms/asterisk18
comms/asterisk19
comms/asterisk21
comms/asterisk22
comms/asterisk23
mail/dcc
net/irrtoolset5
pkgtools/pkg_chk
pkgtools/pkglint4
x11/xview-config
I'd like to emphasize that this still means that non-trivial change to
packages should be passed by MAINTAINERs.
I plan to implement the change in a week.
Comments?
Thomas
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