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":ref:`bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution:dependencies`" sections in the
BitBake User Manual for additional information on tasks and dependencies.
:term:`RECIPE_MAINTAINER`
This variable defines the name and e-mail address of the maintainer of a
recipe. Such information can be used by human users submitted changes,
and by automated tools to send notifications, for example about
vulnerabilities or source updates.
The variable can be defined in a global distribution :oe_git:`maintainers.inc
</openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc>` file::
meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc:RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-sysvinit = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
It can also be directly defined in a recipe,
for example in the ``libgpiod`` one::
RECIPE_MAINTAINER = "Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>"
:term:`RECIPE_NO_UPDATE_REASON`
If a recipe should not be replaced by a more recent upstream version,
putting the reason why in this variable in a recipe allows