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

Sergey Matveychuk sem at ciam.ru
Fri Mar 26 14:41:33 PST 2004


On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:

> * 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)

IMHO the best is: FirstName LastName <login at domain.com>
This notation should be passed to MTA and most MUA without modification
AFAIK.

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