Description of problem: Author info is wrong in man page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): The AUTHORS section of logrotate(8) shows two Red Hat employees who are not with the company any more, Erik Troan <ewt> and Preston Brown <pbrown>. A customer mentioned it to me and it seems we might need to do something about it, although I am not sure what, exactly. I know Erik is reachable at ewtroan and I think Preston is at Bronto these days (http://www.bronto.com/company/leadership/preston-brown). Do we amend or remove, or do those man pages need to be changed upstream? I dug around for only a few minutes and I can't find anything which seems to be the official home page for logrotate.
Hello, logrotate lives on Fedora Hosted: https://fedorahosted.org/logrotate/ I believe the correct solution would be to remove the mail addresses (which are useless anyway) of the original logrotate authors, keep just their names in the documentation and add the contacts to the recent upstream. I don't think those gentlemen wish to be contacted with questions about logrotate. Regards.
(In reply to comment #0) > Description of problem: > Author info is wrong in man page. > > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): > The AUTHORS section of logrotate(8) shows two Red Hat employees who are not > with the company any more, Erik Troan <ewt> and Preston Brown > <pbrown>. A customer mentioned it to me and it seems we might need > to do something about it, although I am not sure what, exactly. > > I know Erik is reachable at ewtroan and I think Preston is at > Bronto these days (http://www.bronto.com/company/leadership/preston-brown). I think the proper solution is to remove old emails from the man page. In my opinion it's not right to put their "private" emails there without any permission. > Do we amend or remove, or do those man pages need to be changed upstream? I > dug around for only a few minutes and I can't find anything which seems to be > the official home page for logrotate. Current official upstream is located at <https://fedorahosted.org/logrotate>. I've added that link to the man page as well as <logrotate-owner> email, which is always forwarded to the actual logrotate package owner.
Created attachment 437578 [details] proposed patch
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