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Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description



"Christopher W. Curtis" <ccurtis@aet-usa.com> writes:

> I really don't see much reason for an upstream maintainer,

Yes, there's been a lot of good arguments for not bothering with the
maintainer name.  You can get that from the pkg home page tho...

> specifically, but a pointer to a mailing list or set of mailing lists
> (eg, there are several for GIMP) where I can search past archives or
> subscribe would be nice.

I think this is subsumed in home page.

> I have also wanted to know from where the source was downloaded a few
> times

This is by policy always in /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/copyright.

-- 
...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>



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