proposal: removal of OWNER
Thomas Klausner <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Apr 2026 12:59:21 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi! I propose removing the OWNER field, replacing this with MAINTAINER. I think the intention of OWNER, when it was introduced, was to protect packages deep in the infrastructure by emphasizing that they should not be touched by non-MAINTAINERs. However, no infrastructure package still sets OWNER, and MAINTAINER defaults to pkgsrc-users a lot. So I think it doesn't make sense to keep this difference alive and propose removing OWNER, replacing it with MAINTAINER. This will affect the following packages: comms/asterisk18 comms/asterisk19 comms/asterisk21 comms/asterisk22 comms/asterisk23 mail/dcc net/irrtoolset5 pkgtools/pkg_chk pkgtools/pkglint4 x11/xview-config I'd like to emphasize that this still means that non-trivial change to packages should be passed by MAINTAINERs. I plan to implement the change in a week. Comments? Thomas