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

[Mark Linimon]

> FWIW, there is also the Usenet notation:
>
> MAINTAINER= login at domain.com (FirstName LastName)

There's probably innumerable variants --some with special characters
that might give the Makefiles a case of heartburn.

I'm just guessing that that might be the reason it wasn't done that way
in the first place; I have no direct knowledge.

mcl