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

[Jean-Baptiste Quenot]

* Will Andrews:

> MAINTAINER= email at address Name1 Name2 Name3 ...
>
> ... this will still allow  programs that interpret MAINTAINER directly
> by taking the  second field (whitespace delimiter)  to work correctly,
> and makes writing said function simple.

FWIW, there is also the Usenet notation:

MAINTAINER= login at domain.com (FirstName LastName)

Cheers,
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Jean-Baptiste Quenot
http://caraldi.com/jbq/