[CORRECTION] Change to the header in ports Makefiles, take two

Marcin Cieslak saper at saper.info
Wed Sep 26 07:36:58 UTC 2012


>> Thomas Abthorpe <portmgr-secretary at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Sometimes, as a result of a repocopy, or changed maintainership, the
> Created By and MAINTAINER is no longer in synchronisation. To avoid
> confusion, the first line can be removed, optionally leaving us with a one
> line header.
>
> # $FreeBSD$
>
> Removing the line of attribution is to be done only at the consent/request
> of the original contributor.

Why bother? I always thought that this leaving the original maintainer
intact is a nice way to say thank you to the person who brought this
piece to FreeBSD.

//Marcin



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