Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful?

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:00:05PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just now noticed that in the Porter handbook said:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-desc.html#AEN81
> ================================================
> It is recommended that you sign your name at the end of this file, as in:
> 
> This is a port of oneko, in which a cat chases a poor mouse all over
> the screen.
>  :
> (etc.)
> 
> WWW: http://www.oneko.org/
> 
> - Satoshi
> asami at cs.berkeley.edu
> ================================================
> 
> I think, it's useless because most of us don't do it. Also, we already 
> have the Whom: and MAINTAINER in the Makefile. It seems to me that sign 
> our name in it is making no sense for pkg-descr as in description file.

I always thought it was for the author of the program :-)

Edwin

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