On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 01:50:58PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> FYI:
> In PR 5771 Tim Rightnour asks about what the current format for the 
> comments is we keep in pkgs's Makefile headers. Formerly, it used to be 
> something like (without the leading tabs):
> 
> 	# New ports collection makefile for:    lha
> 	# Version required:     1.14C
> 	# Date created:         26 Dec 1994
> 	# Whom:                 ache
> 	#
> 	# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.2 1997/10/27 03:22:14 hubertf Exp $
> 	# FreeBSD Id: Makefile,v 1.9 1996/12/15 02:05:58 max Exp 
> 	#
> 
> which we took from FreeBSD. Later on we decided that maintaining that 
> information was more or less useless work, as all the information is 
> present elsewhere, and thus we dripped it,

In FreeBSD, that information is not supposed to be maintained.  It is
supposed to be from the first version of the port.

Personally, I find it fairly useless, given that we have CVS access.
For NetBSD there could actually be a point in having it there.

Eivind.