From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 07:45:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88EC16A41F for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:45:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.fluidhosting.com (mail1.fluidhosting.com [204.14.90.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9721843D53 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:45:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 28126 invoked by uid 399); 21 Sep 2005 07:45:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (dougb@dougbarton.net@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Sep 2005 07:45:19 -0000 Message-ID: <43310F88.3040702@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:45:12 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050908) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Thegler References: <200509201420.j8KEKYa6066950@repoman.freebsd.org> <433100DE.2040901@FreeBSD.org> <43310DF2.8010100@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <43310DF2.8010100@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Erwin Lansing , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/converters/p5-String-Multibyte Makefile ports/converters/p5-Unicode-IMAPUtf7 Makefile ports/databases/p5-CDB_File-Generator Makefile ports/databases/p5-DBD-Excel Makefile ports/databases/p5-DBD-LDAP Makefile ports/databases/p5-DBIx-AnyDBD Makefile ... X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:45:21 -0000 Lars Thegler wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > >> In at least one case (the port above) the pkg-descr file was not >> updated to >> reflect this change. Is this something that would be useful to do? > > > I believe the 'signature' in pkg-descr has the same semantics as the > 'Whom:' line in Makefile, indicating the initial creator of the port. As > least that is how I read porters-handbook. I read "your name" in 3.2.1 as meaning "the name of the person who maintains the port." The creator's name is memorialized in the comment section of the Makefile, I don't see how duplicating that information in pkg-descr would be useful. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection