porter's name in pkg-descr?

Roman Neuhauser neuhauser at sigpipe.cz
Sun Apr 17 14:22:29 UTC 2005


Following an almost exactly one year old thread on ports@, here's
a patch to remove the recommandation that a person's name appears in the
pkg-descr file. The other patch lumps together that diff with another
change that puts a part of the "Note:" just above in the main text.

The original thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-ports&w=2&r=1&s=%22Sign+your+name+in+pkg-descr+is+useless%22&q=b

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RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.547
diff -u -u -r1.547 book.sgml
--- book.sgml	21 Mar 2005 05:35:29 -0000	1.547
+++ book.sgml	17 Apr 2005 14:05:17 -0000
@@ -165,18 +165,12 @@
 	      correctly.</para>
 	  </note>
 
-	  <para>It is recommended that you sign your name at the end of this
-	    file, as in:</para>
-
 	  <programlisting>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</programlisting>
+WWW: http://www.oneko.org/</programlisting>
 	</sect2>
 
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.547
diff -u -u -r1.547 book.sgml
--- book.sgml	21 Mar 2005 05:35:29 -0000	1.547
+++ book.sgml	17 Apr 2005 14:17:29 -0000
@@ -151,32 +151,26 @@
 	  <para>This is a longer description of the port.  One to a few
 	    paragraphs concisely explaining what the port does is
 	    sufficient.</para>
-
+	  <para>If the ported software has an official WWW homepage, you
+	      should list it
+	      here.  Prefix <emphasis>one</emphasis> of the websites with
+	      <literal>WWW:</literal> so that automated tools will work
+	      correctly.</para>
 	  <note>
 	    <para>This is <emphasis>not</emphasis> a manual or an in-depth
 	      description on how to use or compile the port! <emphasis>Please
 	      be careful if you are copying from the
 	      <filename>README</filename> or manpage</emphasis>; too often
 	      they are not a concise description of the port or are in an
-	      awkward format (e.g., manpages have justified spacing).  If the
-	      ported software has an official WWW homepage, you should list it
-	      here.  Prefix <emphasis>one</emphasis> of the websites with
-	      <literal>WWW:</literal> so that automated tools will work
-	      correctly.</para>
+	      awkward format (e.g., manpages have justified spacing).</para>
 	  </note>
 
-	  <para>It is recommended that you sign your name at the end of this
-	    file, as in:</para>
-
 	  <programlisting>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</programlisting>
+WWW: http://www.oneko.org/</programlisting>
 	</sect2>
 
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