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107 files changed, 1 insertions, 118 deletions

diff --git a/archivers/ruby-bz2/pkg-descr b/archivers/ruby-bz2/pkg-descr
index ddebc6f..ab53897 100644
--- a/archivers/ruby-bz2/pkg-descr
+++ b/archivers/ruby-bz2/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby-BZ2 is a Ruby extension to use libbz2.
 
-Author:	Guy Decoux <ts@moulon.inra.fr>
 WWW: http://moulon.inra.fr/ruby/bz2.html
diff --git a/archivers/ruby-lha/pkg-descr b/archivers/ruby-lha/pkg-descr
index cc2937e..6cd7560 100644
--- a/archivers/ruby-lha/pkg-descr
+++ b/archivers/ruby-lha/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 ruby-lha is a ruby extension library that unpack files, compressed with lha.
 
-Author:	arton <artonx@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://arton.no-ip.info/collabo/backyard/?LhaLibEn
diff --git a/archivers/ruby-zip/pkg-descr b/archivers/ruby-zip/pkg-descr
index d4c7130..81917c1 100644
--- a/archivers/ruby-zip/pkg-descr
+++ b/archivers/ruby-zip/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby module or reading and writing zip files.
 
-Author:	Thomas Sondergaard <thomass@deltadata.dk>
 WWW: http://rubyzip.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/audio/ruby-audiofile/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-audiofile/pkg-descr
index a10a34d..b2a8dee 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-audiofile/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-audiofile/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Ruby-audiofile is a binding to the audiofile library, which reads
 audio (wav, au, aiff, but not ogg or mp3) and can divine information
 such as length, sample rate, etc.
 
-Author:	jared jennings <liver@soon.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-audiofile.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/audio/ruby-esound/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-esound/pkg-descr
index 6bcfc72..f7c8534 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-esound/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-esound/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby/EsounD is a Ruby binding to the EsounD library.
 
-Author:	Hiroshi Kuwagata <kgt@kokone.to>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=ruby-esound
diff --git a/audio/ruby-freedb/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-freedb/pkg-descr
index fc240fd..7a90050 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-freedb/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-freedb/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Ruby/Freedb is a library that provides access to Freedb/CDDB servers
 to find some useful CD-Audio informations (CD-title, tracks titles).
 This library includes low-level functions to access CD-ROM device.
 
-Author:	Guillaume Pierronnet <moumar@rubyforge.org>
 WWW: http://ruby-freedb.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/audio/ruby-mp3info/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-mp3info/pkg-descr
index 89b945d..2fc8492 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-mp3info/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-mp3info/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ This library gives you access to low level informations on mp3 files
 (bitrate, length, samplerate, etc...).  It can read, write, remove
 id3v1 tag and read id3v2.  It is written in pure ruby.
 
-Author:	Guillaume Pierronnet <moumar@netcourrier.com>
 WWW: http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-mp3info
diff --git a/audio/ruby-mp3tag/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-mp3tag/pkg-descr
index b8d6502..ec26f06 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-mp3tag/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-mp3tag/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Mp3Tag is a ruby module that handles ID3v1.1 tags in MP3 files.  It
 can read ID3v1.0 and ID3v1.1 but only write ID3v1.1 tags.  It can save
 new tags and remove tags.
 
-Author:	Lars Christensen <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>
 WWW: http://users.cybercity.dk/~dsl8950/ruby/mp3tag.html
diff --git a/audio/ruby-smf/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-smf/pkg-descr
index b54cfa0..e23c873 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-smf/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-smf/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ This is a "Standard MIDI File" module, which handles encoding and
 decoding SMF.  This includes a simple MML as an example of
 application.
 
-Author:	Tadayoshi Funaba <tadf@funaba.org>
 WWW: http://www.funaba.org/en/ruby.html#smf
diff --git a/audio/ruby-vorbisfile/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-vorbisfile/pkg-descr
index 194315b..741d4b7 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-vorbisfile/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-vorbisfile/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 ruby-vorbisfile is a Ruby extension wrapping libvorbisfile.
 
-Author:	Rik Hemsley <rik@kde.org>
 WWW: http://rikkus.info/ruby_vorbisfile.html
diff --git a/audio/ruby-xmms/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-xmms/pkg-descr
index 7a6add5..479bdfb 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-xmms/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-xmms/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is XMMS bindings for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Paul Duncan (pabs) <pabs@pablotron.org>
 WWW: http://www.pablotron.org/software/xmms-ruby/
diff --git a/audio/rubygem-ogginfo/pkg-descr b/audio/rubygem-ogginfo/pkg-descr
index c65e008..537b500 100644
--- a/audio/rubygem-ogginfo/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/rubygem-ogginfo/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Ogginfo gives you access to low level information on ogg files (bitrate,
 length, samplerate, encoder, etc... ), as well as tag.
 
-Author:	Guillaume Pierronnet <guillaume.pierronnet@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-ogginfo.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/converters/ruby-dump.rb/pkg-descr b/converters/ruby-dump.rb/pkg-descr
index f0d4847..a1a57f3 100644
--- a/converters/ruby-dump.rb/pkg-descr
+++ b/converters/ruby-dump.rb/pkg-descr
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 This is dump.rb, a binary data dumper module for Ruby.
 
-Author:	miche@e-mail.ne.jp
+WWW: http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Oakland/2986/
diff --git a/converters/ruby-iconv/pkg-descr b/converters/ruby-iconv/pkg-descr
index 0aaf45c..5f559c03 100644
--- a/converters/ruby-iconv/pkg-descr
+++ b/converters/ruby-iconv/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is an iconv wrapper class for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Nobuyoshi.Nakada <nobu.nokada@softhome.net>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=iconv
diff --git a/databases/ruby-cdb/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-cdb/pkg-descr
index eaf8601..24deb65 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-cdb/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-cdb/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This module provides Ruby interface to D. J. Bernstein's cdb (constant
 database) library.
 
-Author:	Kazuteru Okahashi <kaz@fan.gr.jp>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=cdb
diff --git a/databases/ruby-dbd_mysql/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-dbd_mysql/pkg-descr
index d086b16..ec522e1 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-dbd_mysql/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-dbd_mysql/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is the MySQL driver for DBI-for-Ruby.
 
-Author:	Rainer Perl <rainer.perl@sprytech.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/databases/ruby-dbd_odbc/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-dbd_odbc/pkg-descr
index 8a440e5..4e09cc2 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-dbd_odbc/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-dbd_odbc/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is the ODBC driver for DBI-for-Ruby.
 
-Author:	Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de>
 WWW: http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/databases/ruby-dbd_pg/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-dbd_pg/pkg-descr
index fd8dea4..07de69e 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-dbd_pg/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-dbd_pg/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is the PostgreSQL driver for DBI-for-Ruby.
 
-Author:	Jim Weirich <jweirich@one.ent>
 WWW: http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/databases/ruby-dbd_sqlite/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-dbd_sqlite/pkg-descr
index 3a0e75e..e562f02 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-dbd_sqlite/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-dbd_sqlite/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is the SQLite driver for DBI-for-Ruby.
 
-Author:	Rainer Perl <rainer.perl@sprytech.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/databases/ruby-dbi/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-dbi/pkg-descr
index 12fb5ad..350ac07 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-dbi/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-dbi/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 This is a DBI-for-Ruby.  It is designed to behave like the DBI you
 know from Perl.
 
-Author:	Rainer Perl <rainer.perl@sprytech.com>,
-	Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de>
-
 WWW: http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/databases/ruby-memcache/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-memcache/pkg-descr
index a20711f..067df0a 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-memcache/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-memcache/pkg-descr
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ in network-accessable memory space, and is used behind several
 high-traffic dynamic web sites like LiveJournal, Slashdot, WikiPedia,
 and others.
 
-Author:	Michael Granger <ged-raa@FaerieMUD.org>
 WWW: http://www.deveiate.org/code/Ruby-MemCache.html
diff --git a/databases/ruby-msql/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-msql/pkg-descr
index 0ba1483..13aa8dd 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-msql/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-msql/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby API for mSQL.
 
-Author:	DATE Ken <ge6537@i.bekkoame.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://dontstopmusic.no-ip.org/
diff --git a/databases/ruby-o_dbm/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-o_dbm/pkg-descr
index 5a40601..392c155 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-o_dbm/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-o_dbm/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 ObjectDBM (o_dbm) is an OODB-like DBM module for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Keiju Ishitsuka <keiju@ishitsuka.com>
 WWW: 	http://raa.ruby-lang.org/search.rhtml?search=o_dbm
diff --git a/databases/ruby-rdbc1/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-rdbc1/pkg-descr
index 12faa16..2e335c1 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-rdbc1/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-rdbc1/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ RDBC provides a unified API to access RDBMS such as PostgreSQL and
 Oracle.  The composition of RDBC is like that of JDBC.  Almost all the
 names of the classes and the methods are mimicked.
 
-Author:	NAKAMURA Akifumi <BXQ04723@nifty.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://homepage3.nifty.com/guion/SOFT/RDBC/INDEX_E.HTM
diff --git a/databases/rubygem-sqlite3-ruby/pkg-descr b/databases/rubygem-sqlite3-ruby/pkg-descr
index aeb9e34..9fa24d3 100644
--- a/databases/rubygem-sqlite3-ruby/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/rubygem-sqlite3-ruby/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ so you can do things that would otherwise be more difficult via DBI.
 If you want portability between backends, use DBI.  If you want ease
 of use with SQLite, use this.
 
-Author:	Jamis Buck (minam) <jgb3@email.byu.edu>
 WWW: https://github.com/luislavena/sqlite3-ruby
diff --git a/databases/rubygem-sqlite3/pkg-descr b/databases/rubygem-sqlite3/pkg-descr
index aeb9e34..9fa24d3 100644
--- a/databases/rubygem-sqlite3/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/rubygem-sqlite3/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ so you can do things that would otherwise be more difficult via DBI.
 If you want portability between backends, use DBI.  If you want ease
 of use with SQLite, use this.
 
-Author:	Jamis Buck (minam) <jgb3@email.byu.edu>
 WWW: https://github.com/luislavena/sqlite3-ruby
diff --git a/devel/oniguruma/pkg-descr b/devel/oniguruma/pkg-descr
index 09e8cd6..41f087b 100644
--- a/devel/oniguruma/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/oniguruma/pkg-descr
@@ -11,5 +11,4 @@ ASCII, UTF-8, EUC-JP and Shift_JIS.
 
 2.x supports Ruby1.6/1.8
 
-Author:	K.Kosako <kosako@sofnec.co.jp>
 WWW: http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-amstd/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-amstd/pkg-descr
index ae7a81d..391e76e 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-amstd/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-amstd/pkg-descr
@@ -14,5 +14,4 @@ getdep.rb: gets file dependency		to_s.rb: _name2str, _type2str
 inst.rb: helps installation		version.rb: VersionNumber class
 must.rb: must/must_have/must_be methods
 
-Author:	Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net>
 WWW: http://www.loveruby.net/en/amstd.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-avl/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-avl/pkg-descr
index 9f56723..9ee9e54 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-avl/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-avl/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is the AVL tree class for Ruby which works like a Hash,
 implemented as a wrapper for libavl.
 
-Author:	Filip Pizlo <pizlo@purdue.edu>
 WWW: http://bocks.psych.purdue.edu/~pizman/avl/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-cache/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-cache/pkg-descr
index 45cd9db..081c301 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-cache/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-cache/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Ruby/Cache is a library for caching objects based on the LRU algorithm
 for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org>
 WWW: http://www.nongnu.org/pupa/ruby-cache.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-calendar/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-calendar/pkg-descr
index e5b1b13..c821f9b 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-calendar/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-calendar/pkg-descr
@@ -17,5 +17,4 @@ Sdn module:
   This module supports the following calendars:
     Gregorian, Julian, French Republican, Jewish
 
-Author:	Tadayoshi Funaba <tadf@funaba.org>
 WWW: http://www.funaba.org/en/calendar.html#calendar
diff --git a/devel/ruby-dialogs/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-dialogs/pkg-descr
index cad3482..c433ee9 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-dialogs/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-dialogs/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ rubyDialogs is a simple interface to dialog(1).
 This software is distributed under the Bluesine public license, which
 is a variant of the BSD license. (See: http://bluesine.com/license/)
 
-Author:	Jeff Clement <jeff@bluesine.com>
 WWW: http://bluesine.com/archives/software/ruby/rubyDialogs/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-fam/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-fam/pkg-descr
index 54550bb..6702c4e 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-fam/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-fam/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is FAM bindings for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Paul Duncan (pabs) <pabs@pablotron.org>
 WWW: http://www.pablotron.org/software/fam-ruby/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-fastri/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-fastri/pkg-descr
index c5ea4d0..5ce8353 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-fastri/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-fastri/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ FastRI improves on the aging RI documentation tool: much faster, needs less
 RAM, "scoped" searches, e.g. get String extensions defined in a given RubyGems
 package, fast full-text search, remote access via DRb (auto-discovered).
 
-Author:	Mauricio Julio Fernandez Pradier <mfp@acm.org>
 WWW: http://eigenclass.org/hiki/fastri
diff --git a/devel/ruby-gemfinder/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-gemfinder/pkg-descr
index b092eaf..cc39607 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-gemfinder/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-gemfinder/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Gem Finder is a simple class browser (built with Ruby/Tk) for Ruby
 modules/programs.  It allows a user to view the superclass,
 subclasses, included modules and methods of any class in the system.
 
-Author:	Jim Weirich <jweirich@one.net>
 WWW: http://onestepback.org/packages/gemfinder/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-intl/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-intl/pkg-descr
index 1e3e7c8..e27f8af 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-intl/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-intl/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby-intl -- A simple wrapper of GNU gettext for ruby
 
-Author:	HIRATA Naoto <hirata-naoto@sannet.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/hirata-naoto/ruby-e.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-io-reactor/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-io-reactor/pkg-descr
index 248731d..69e3876 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-io-reactor/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-io-reactor/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ for Concurrent and Networked Objects_. It allows a single thread to
 demultiplex and dispatch events from one or more IO objects to an
 appropriate handler.
 
-Author:	Michael Granger <ged-raa@FaerieMUD.org>
 WWW: http://www.deveiate.org/code/IO-Reactor.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-locale/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-locale/pkg-descr
index b66f18d..2b055b1 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-locale/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-locale/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby-locale -- A simple Ruby module that provides setlocale(3)
 
-Author:	Yasushi Shoji <yashi@kafka.salemstate.edu>
 WWW: http://kafka.salemstate.edu/~yashi/ruby/#locale
diff --git a/devel/ruby-locale2/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-locale2/pkg-descr
index d2c87fc..a19c251 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-locale2/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-locale2/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Ruby-Locale is the pure ruby library which provides basic APIs for
 localization.
 
-Author:	Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highway.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-locale.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-multi/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-multi/pkg-descr
index b5fda60..bb9d269 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-multi/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-multi/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ and pattern matching in Ruby method definitions, choosing different
 method bodies depending on the types and values of the parameters
 the method is invoked with.
 
-Author:	Topher Cyll <christophercyll@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://multi.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-property/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-property/pkg-descr
index 007e4be..dfaab4d 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-property/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-property/pkg-descr
@@ -4,4 +4,3 @@ This library, developed after java.util.Properties class of Java
 Language, provides simple properties scheme for application
 configurations, resources, locale data, etc.
 
-Author:	Hiroshi IGARASHI <igarashi@ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp>
diff --git a/devel/ruby-racc/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-racc/pkg-descr
index 4c68a58..16a3eee 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-racc/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-racc/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Racc is an LALR(1) parser generator for Ruby.  It is written in Ruby
 and generates Ruby code.  Almost all functions of yacc(1) is
 implemented.
 
-Author:	Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net>
 WWW: http://i.loveruby.net/en/racc.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-rbison/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-rbison/pkg-descr
index 23ffb81..ef2a59a 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-rbison/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-rbison/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ file.  rbison uses Bison to do all the hard work (generating state
 transition tables, etc), then translates the Bison-generated C code
 into Ruby code.
 
-Author:	Jonathan Aseltine <aseltine@cs.umass.edu>
 WWW: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~aseltine/rbison.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-robjectteam/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-robjectteam/pkg-descr
index e1b1794..df8e9d5 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-robjectteam/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-robjectteam/pkg-descr
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ implemented as roles and are weaved into domain classes via a
 connector at runtime (runtime weaving).  These aspects can be
 explicitly activated and deactivated.
 
-Author:	Matthias Veit <matthias_veit@yahoo.de>
 WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/robjectteam/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-rreadline/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-rreadline/pkg-descr
index b2837b9..0297c7d 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-rreadline/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-rreadline/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 RReadline is a pure Ruby implementation of the Readline library.
 
-Author:	KUBO Hiroya <hiroya@netcom.mag.keio.ac.jp>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=ruby_readline
diff --git a/devel/ruby-setup.rb/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-setup.rb/pkg-descr
index 90bd4f9..dd5ac60 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-setup.rb/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-setup.rb/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Setup.rb is a common installer script for ruby packages.  It can
 handle multiple binaries, libraries, extensions etc. in one archive.
 
-Author:	Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net>
 WWW: http://www.loveruby.net/en/setup.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-sexp/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-sexp/pkg-descr
index 17621d9..0338efa 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-sexp/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-sexp/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ S-Expression is a pure Ruby library to parse strings
 of Lisp style s-expressions into native Ruby style
 s-expressions and back again.
 
-Author:	Topher Cyll <christophercyll@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://sexp.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-slang/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-slang/pkg-descr
index 61f3c51..60a77b5 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-slang/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-slang/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ This is an extension module for S-Lang screen management library by
 John E. Davis.  S-Lang is famous for the fact that jed (editor) and
 slrn (news reader) use it.
 
-Author:	Kikutani, Makoto <kikutani@debian.or.jp>
 WWW: http://www.s-lang.org/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-tzfile/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-tzfile/pkg-descr
index 844c378..91c4ec5 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-tzfile/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-tzfile/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ Ruby/TZFile is a TZFile handling library for Ruby.
 It generates classes like Time class for timezones other than
 localtime nor UTC.
 
-Author:	Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>
 WWW: http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/ruby-tzfile/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-wirble/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-wirble/pkg-descr
index 77abd74..95bf06e 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-wirble/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-wirble/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ package.  Specifically, Wirble adds a saved history, a couple of useful
 shortcuts, and color to Irb.  Wirble also enables a Irb's built-in
 tab-completion and a simpler prompt.
 
-Author:	Paul Duncan <pabs@pablotron.org>
 WWW: http://pablotron.org/software/wirble/
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-fastri/pkg-descr b/devel/rubygem-fastri/pkg-descr
index c5ea4d0..5ce8353 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-fastri/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/rubygem-fastri/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ FastRI improves on the aging RI documentation tool: much faster, needs less
 RAM, "scoped" searches, e.g. get String extensions defined in a given RubyGems
 package, fast full-text search, remote access via DRb (auto-discovered).
 
-Author:	Mauricio Julio Fernandez Pradier <mfp@acm.org>
 WWW: http://eigenclass.org/hiki/fastri
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-slop/pkg-descr b/devel/rubygem-slop/pkg-descr
index 352a584..e59b725 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-slop/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/rubygem-slop/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Slop is a simple option parser with an easy to remember syntax and friendly API.
 
-Author:	Lee Jarvis <lee _at_ jarvis.co>
 WWW: http://rubygems.org/gems/slop
diff --git a/games/ruby-exmars/pkg-descr b/games/ruby-exmars/pkg-descr
index 857c38b..32e7327 100644
--- a/games/ruby-exmars/pkg-descr
+++ b/games/ruby-exmars/pkg-descr
@@ -18,5 +18,4 @@ The resulting program has the following main features:
 
 NOTE: This is only Ruby interface part. To install exmars use games/exmars port.
 
-Author: Martin Ankerl
 WWW: http://corewar.co.uk/ankerl/exmars.htm
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-image_size/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-image_size/pkg-descr
index 0ee5622..ab1f7e6 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-image_size/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-image_size/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby library to measure the size of a given image file.
 
-Author:	Keisuke Minami <keisuke@rccn.com>
 WWW: http://www.rubycgi.org/tools/index.en.htm
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-imlib2/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-imlib2/pkg-descr
index da90025..658ed33 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-imlib2/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-imlib2/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is Imlib2 bindings for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Paul Duncan (pabs) <pabs@pablotron.org>
 WWW: http://www.pablotron.org/software/imlib2-ruby/
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-opengl/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-opengl/pkg-descr
index 5b537ad..3feb922 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-opengl/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-opengl/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is OpenGL/GLU/GLUT interface modules for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Yoshiyuki Kusano <yoshi@giganet.net>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=opengl
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-pgplot/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-pgplot/pkg-descr
index 18ce001..4eca94c 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-pgplot/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-pgplot/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is a Ruby interface to PGPLOT graphics library, which generates
 X-Y plot, contour/image/vector maps, etc. .
 
-Author: Masahiro TANAKA <masa@ir.isas.ac.jp>
 WWW: http://pgplot.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-rmagick/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-rmagick/pkg-descr
index 31d5f61..10826e3 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-rmagick/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-rmagick/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ RMagick is a binding for ImageMagick.  Defines approx. 120 methods for
 2D image manipulation.  HTML documentation contains usage guide and
 API reference, including 116 complete example programs and images.
 
-Author:	Tim Hunter <cyclists@nc.rr.com>
 WWW: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick/
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-svg/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-svg/pkg-descr
index c3ef8f6..ee6c32b 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-svg/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-svg/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby library for generating SVG files.
 
-Author: Yuya <yuya@4th.to>
 WWW: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/ruby-svg/
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-tgif/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-tgif/pkg-descr
index 921886a..e25ff2e 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-tgif/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-tgif/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby/Tgif is a Ruby extension library to draw Tgif graphics.
 
-Author:	Noritsugu Nakamura <nnakamur@mxq.mesh.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~Nori/ruby/
diff --git a/irc/ruby-rica/pkg-descr b/irc/ruby-rica/pkg-descr
index 14d21da..eb74e04 100644
--- a/irc/ruby-rica/pkg-descr
+++ b/irc/ruby-rica/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 RICA is Ruby Internet relay chat Core Agents, an IRC client framework
 for Ruby.
 
-Author:	zophos@koka-in.org
 WWW: http://www.koka-in.org/~zophos/SideA/lsnt/rica.html
diff --git a/irc/ruby-rice/pkg-descr b/irc/ruby-rice/pkg-descr
index 7b90b97..95e5fd4 100644
--- a/irc/ruby-rice/pkg-descr
+++ b/irc/ruby-rice/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 RICE is Ruby Irc interfaCE, an IRC interface library for Ruby.
 
-Author:	akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=rice
diff --git a/japanese/rbnamazu/pkg-descr b/japanese/rbnamazu/pkg-descr
index b62529f..3b726ce 100644
--- a/japanese/rbnamazu/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/rbnamazu/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ in Ruby.
 
 With this, you can do a Namazu search from a Ruby script.
 
-Author:	Ryunosuke Ohshima <ryu@jaist.ac.jp>
 WWW: http://www.namazu.org/ruby-namazu/index.html.en
diff --git a/japanese/rskkserv/pkg-descr b/japanese/rskkserv/pkg-descr
index 325e803..0968be1 100644
--- a/japanese/rskkserv/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/rskkserv/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
 rskkserv is an alternative implementation of skkserv written in Ruby.
 
-
-Author:	Shugo Maeda <shugo@ruby-lang.org>,
-	YAMASHITA Junji <ysjj@unixuser.org> (current maintainer)
-
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=rskkserv
diff --git a/japanese/ruby-chasen/pkg-descr b/japanese/ruby-chasen/pkg-descr
index 34ef7cd..3a4303a 100644
--- a/japanese/ruby-chasen/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/ruby-chasen/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby/ChaSen -- ChaSen module for Ruby.
 
-Author:	IKARASHI Akira <ikarashi@d3.dion.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=ruby-chasen
diff --git a/japanese/ruby-gyokuro/pkg-descr b/japanese/ruby-gyokuro/pkg-descr
index c106ee9..be05b8a 100644
--- a/japanese/ruby-gyokuro/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/ruby-gyokuro/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby library which wraps Ruby/ChaSen.
 
-Author: Yuya <yuya@4th.to>
 WWW: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/gyokuro/
diff --git a/japanese/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr b/japanese/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
index 4656723..365d08c 100644
--- a/japanese/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ object-oriented programming.  It has many features to process text
 files and to do system management tasks.  This package contains
 Japanese version of the Ruby users guide in HTML format.
 
-Author:	Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
diff --git a/lang/ruby-doc-stdlib/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby-doc-stdlib/pkg-descr
index ec5c75e..52724a4 100644
--- a/lang/ruby-doc-stdlib/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby-doc-stdlib/pkg-descr
@@ -12,5 +12,4 @@ stdlib-doc is a RubyForge project that converts Ruby source code into this
 documentation you are looking at.
 It also tracks the status of the documentation effort.
 
-Author:	James G. Britt <j.g.britt@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/
diff --git a/lang/ruby-lua4/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby-lua4/pkg-descr
index ce213b5..274d727 100644
--- a/lang/ruby-lua4/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby-lua4/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ Ruby-Lua -- an embebed scripting language for ruby programs
 This is a first attempt to make Lua script language as a class for
 ruby, it's very basic right now.
 
-Author:	Domingo Alvarez <domingo@dad-it.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-lua.unolotiene.com/
diff --git a/lang/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
index 63dcb59..1553520 100644
--- a/lang/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
@@ -3,9 +3,4 @@ object-oriented programming.  It has many features to process text
 files and to do system management tasks.  This package contains the
 Ruby users guide in HTML format.
 
-Author: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp> (Japanese version)
-	GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@notwork.org> (Initial translation)
-	Julian Fondren (ditto)
-	Mark Slagell <slagell@cs.iastate.edu> (Retranslation)
-
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
diff --git a/lang/ruby18/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby18/pkg-descr
index f647b45..6397717 100644
--- a/lang/ruby18/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby18/pkg-descr
@@ -16,5 +16,4 @@ Features of Ruby are shown below.
   + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
     Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
 
-Author:	Matsumoto "matz" Yukihiro <matz@zetabits.com>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
diff --git a/lang/ruby19/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby19/pkg-descr
index f647b45..6397717 100644
--- a/lang/ruby19/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby19/pkg-descr
@@ -16,5 +16,4 @@ Features of Ruby are shown below.
   + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
     Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
 
-Author:	Matsumoto "matz" Yukihiro <matz@zetabits.com>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
diff --git a/lang/ruby20/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby20/pkg-descr
index f647b45..6397717 100644
--- a/lang/ruby20/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby20/pkg-descr
@@ -16,5 +16,4 @@ Features of Ruby are shown below.
   + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
     Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
 
-Author:	Matsumoto "matz" Yukihiro <matz@zetabits.com>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
diff --git a/mail/ruby-rfilter/pkg-descr b/mail/ruby-rfilter/pkg-descr
index 3d8d2d3..33a557c 100644
--- a/mail/ruby-rfilter/pkg-descr
+++ b/mail/ruby-rfilter/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ RubyFilter is a set of Ruby classes built on top of the RubyMail
 library that make it easy to write programs that filter and deliver
 email to mailboxes.
 
-Author:	Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>
 WWW: http://www.lickey.com/rubyfilter/
diff --git a/mail/ruby-rmail/pkg-descr b/mail/ruby-rmail/pkg-descr
index 34c0f64..57dfbe2 100644
--- a/mail/ruby-rmail/pkg-descr
+++ b/mail/ruby-rmail/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is RubyMail, a lightweight mail library containing various mail
 utility classes and modules.
 
-Author:	Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>
 WWW: http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/
diff --git a/math/ruby-gnuplot/pkg-descr b/math/ruby-gnuplot/pkg-descr
index 339647f..93c2db2 100644
--- a/math/ruby-gnuplot/pkg-descr
+++ b/math/ruby-gnuplot/pkg-descr
@@ -20,5 +20,4 @@ same principle.  Here's an example usage of Ruby/Gnuplot:
 
 	plot.draw ( ds )
 
-Author:	Gordon Miller <gmiller@bittwiddlers.com>
 WWW: http://physci.gmu.edu/~gmiller/gnuplot/
diff --git a/math/ruby-narray/pkg-descr b/math/ruby-narray/pkg-descr
index 02007d5..f786e0f 100644
--- a/math/ruby-narray/pkg-descr
+++ b/math/ruby-narray/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 NArray is an Numerical N-dimensional Array class. Supported element types are 1/2/4-byte Integer, single/double-precision Real/Complex, and Ruby Object. This extension library incorporates fast calculation and easy manipulation of large numerical arrays into the Ruby language. NArray has features similar to NumPy, but NArray has vector and matrix subclasses.
 
-Author:	Masahiro TANAKA <masa16.tanaka @nospam@ gmail.com>
 WWW: http://narray.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/net/ruby-icmp/pkg-descr b/net/ruby-icmp/pkg-descr
index f309736..95daba3 100644
--- a/net/ruby-icmp/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/ruby-icmp/pkg-descr
@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@ This is a Ruby module for handling ICMP packets.
 
 Note that it requires root permission to handle any ICMP packets.
 
-Author:	GOTOU YUUZOU <gotoyuzo@notwork.org>
diff --git a/net/ruby-ldap/pkg-descr b/net/ruby-ldap/pkg-descr
index 31a3ffd..ab16765 100644
--- a/net/ruby-ldap/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/ruby-ldap/pkg-descr
@@ -3,7 +3,4 @@ based on RFC1823.
 
 Supported LDAP libraries are OpenLDAP, Michigan LDAP, and NetscapeSDK.
 
-Author:	Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@users.sourceforge.net>
-Author: Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
-Author: Alexey Chebotar <alexey.chebotar@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-ldap/
diff --git a/net/ruby-tcpsocketpipe/pkg-descr b/net/ruby-tcpsocketpipe/pkg-descr
index 364d2d2..c0cc36fe 100644
--- a/net/ruby-tcpsocketpipe/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/ruby-tcpsocketpipe/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is Ruby/TCPSocketPipe, a Ruby library to create I/O pipes for TCP
 socket tunneling.
 
-Author:	NaHi (NAKAMURA, Hiroshi) <nahi@keynauts.com>
 WWW: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/tcpsocketpipe
diff --git a/net/ruby-tserver/pkg-descr b/net/ruby-tserver/pkg-descr
index 06eb338..c245048 100644
--- a/net/ruby-tserver/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/ruby-tserver/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 TServer is a Ruby library for writing a preforking server like Apache.
 
-Author:	TOMITA Masahiro <tommy@tmtm.org>
 WWW: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/tserver
diff --git a/print/ruby-panda/pkg-descr b/print/ruby-panda/pkg-descr
index 05f5194..bfe7b81 100644
--- a/print/ruby-panda/pkg-descr
+++ b/print/ruby-panda/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Ruby/Panda is a Ruby extension library to access Panda, a GPL'ed
 library for dynamically generating PDF files.
 
-Author:	Noritsugu Nakamura <nnakamur@mxq.mesh.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~Nori/ruby/
diff --git a/security/ruby-gpgme/pkg-descr b/security/ruby-gpgme/pkg-descr
index c6d1887..aa29f6d8 100644
--- a/security/ruby-gpgme/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/ruby-gpgme/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ Ruby-GPGME is a ruby interface to GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME).
 - The high-level API provides a convenient class-based interface to
   frequently used GPGME functions.
 
-Author:	Daiki Ueno
 WWW: http://ruby-gpgme.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/security/ruby-hmac/pkg-descr b/security/ruby-hmac/pkg-descr
index 0e3eba4..3204628 100644
--- a/security/ruby-hmac/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/ruby-hmac/pkg-descr
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ standard is documented in RFC2104.  Namely, a MAC provides a way to
 check the integrity of information transmitted over or stored in an
 unreliable medium, based on a secret key.
 
-Author:	Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
 WWW: http://deisui.org/~ueno/ruby/hmac.html
diff --git a/security/ruby-password/pkg-descr b/security/ruby-password/pkg-descr
index e503443..7a0dcc1 100644
--- a/security/ruby-password/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/ruby-password/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Ruby/Password comprises a set of useful methods for creating,
 verifying and manipulating passwords.  It includes an interface to
 CrackLib, a library commonly used for checking password strength.
 
-Author:	Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 WWW: http://www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-password.shtml
diff --git a/security/ruby-tcpwrap/pkg-descr b/security/ruby-tcpwrap/pkg-descr
index ce142275..49d9d34 100644
--- a/security/ruby-tcpwrap/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/ruby-tcpwrap/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 ruby-tcpwrap -- TCP wrappers library for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Shugo Maeda <shugo@ruby-lang.org>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=ruby-tcpwrap
diff --git a/security/rubygem-hmac/pkg-descr b/security/rubygem-hmac/pkg-descr
index 0e3eba4..3204628 100644
--- a/security/rubygem-hmac/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/rubygem-hmac/pkg-descr
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ standard is documented in RFC2104.  Namely, a MAC provides a way to
 check the integrity of information transmitted over or stored in an
 unreliable medium, based on a secret key.
 
-Author:	Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
 WWW: http://deisui.org/~ueno/ruby/hmac.html
diff --git a/sysutils/ruby-quota/pkg-descr b/sysutils/ruby-quota/pkg-descr
index 1617103..68e5feb 100644
--- a/sysutils/ruby-quota/pkg-descr
+++ b/sysutils/ruby-quota/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby-quota is a ruby library to manipulate filesystem quotas.
 
-Author:	Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@users.sourceforge.net>
 WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ruby-quota/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-amatch/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-amatch/pkg-descr
index 61b4e50..5dba61c 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-amatch/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-amatch/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ This is a Ruby library for approximate string matching and searching
 using a dynamic programming algorithm to compute the Levenstein
 distance between strings.  Written in C for speed.
 
-Author:	Florian Frank <flori@ping.de>
 WWW: http://amatch.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-amrita/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-amrita/pkg-descr
index bb653cf..ebfe17f 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-amrita/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-amrita/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 amrita is an HTML/XHTML template library for Ruby.
 It makes html documents from a template and a model data.
 
-Author:	Taku Nakajima <tnakajima@brain-tokyo.jp>
 WWW: http://amrita.sourceforge.jp/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-format/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-format/pkg-descr
index 82e8b14..b95c04a 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-format/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-format/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ Class Format in module FormatR provides Perl like formats for Ruby.
 These are used to create output with a similar format but with
 changing values.
 
-Author:	Paul Rubel <rubel@crhc.uiuc.edu>
 WWW: http://formatr.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-html-fillinform/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-html-fillinform/pkg-descr
index cc36235..2a278d9 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-html-fillinform/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-html-fillinform/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 HTML/FillInForm is a Ruby library that automatically inserts form data
 into HTML.
 
-Author:	IKEBE Tomohiro <ikebe@shebang.jp>
 WWW: http://shebang.jp/src/ruby/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-html-template/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-html-template/pkg-descr
index 31f329f..526af7d 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-html-template/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-html-template/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 HTML/Template is a Ruby library to use HTML as a template file from
 CGI scripts.
 
-Author:	IKEBE Tomohiro <ikebe@shebang.jp>
 WWW: http://shebang.jp/src/ruby/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-htmlrepair/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-htmlrepair/pkg-descr
index a4a8863..050a278 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-htmlrepair/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-htmlrepair/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ HTML document.
 It is used with htmlsplit.rb and adds a method "repair" to the
 HTMLSplit class.
 
-Author:	MoonWolf <moonwolf-ruby@moonwolf.com>
 WWW: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/htmlrepair
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-htmlsplit/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-htmlsplit/pkg-descr
index e5e20b5..31a4025 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-htmlsplit/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-htmlsplit/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is htmlsplit.rb, a Ruby library to split an HTML document into an
 array of tags and contents.
 
-Author:	MoonWolf <moonwolf-ruby@moonwolf.com>
 WWW: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/htmlsplit
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-mwdom/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-mwdom/pkg-descr
index 7ebfb83..3f280b4 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-mwdom/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-mwdom/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is Ruby/MWDOM, DOM level2 module, XMLWriter and XHTMLWriter for
 Ruby.
 
-Author:	MoonWolf <moonwolf-ruby@moonwolf.com>
 WWW: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/mwdom
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-rss.alt/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-rss.alt/pkg-descr
index af8defe..2e7c0e1 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-rss.alt/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-rss.alt/pkg-descr
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ This library contains a sample that expand [RAA:RWiki].
 * collect RSS 1.0s and display those items sorted by updating time.
 * collect RSSs and display those items on each page.
 
-Author:	kou <kou@cozmixng.org>
 WWW: http://www.cozmixng.org/~rwiki/index.rb?cmd=view;name=RSS+Parser
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-rss/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-rss/pkg-descr
index 6a411f0..449f7ca 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-rss/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-rss/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is a Ruby library for parsing, creating, downloading, and caching
 RSS (http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/mnn20/quickstart.html).
 
-Author:	Chad Fowler <cfowler@chadfowler.com>
 WWW: http://www.chadfowler.com/index.cgi?mode=max&cat=ruby
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-xmlparser/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-xmlparser/pkg-descr
index 9ce9c18..3403787 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-xmlparser/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-xmlparser/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby module to access James Clark's XML Parser ToolKit. ("expat")
 
-Author:	Yoshida Masato <yoshidam@yoshidam.net>
 WWW: http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html#xmlparser
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-htmltools/pkg-descr b/textproc/rubygem-htmltools/pkg-descr
index cd9f972..d1e9086 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-htmltools/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-htmltools/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Ruby-htmltools tools for parsing and manipulating HTML text in Ruby.
 It can be used for programmatically access outside HTML-pages.
 I hope to extend it to become a web-publishing framework in the future.
 
-Author: Johannes Brodwall <johannes@brodwall.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-htmltools.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-sanitize/pkg-descr b/textproc/rubygem-sanitize/pkg-descr
index d9e8176..c4b8dd7 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-sanitize/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-sanitize/pkg-descr
@@ -8,5 +8,4 @@ and even certain URL protocols within attributes that contain URLs.
 Any HTML elements or attributes that you don't explicitly allow
 will be removed.
 
-Author: Ryan Grove
 WWW: http://wonko.com/post/sanitize
diff --git a/www/ruby-amazon/pkg-descr b/www/ruby-amazon/pkg-descr
index 571135f..feabf8e 100644
--- a/www/ruby-amazon/pkg-descr
+++ b/www/ruby-amazon/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ Services.  It aims to wrap the grunt work of interacting with the
 Amazon API behind a high-level layer of Ruby and, in so doing, make it
 easier to use.
 
-Author:	Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 WWW: http://www.caliban.org/ruby/
diff --git a/www/ruby-borges/pkg-descr b/www/ruby-borges/pkg-descr
index fe5df8d..509d5c3 100644
--- a/www/ruby-borges/pkg-descr
+++ b/www/ruby-borges/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Borges is a web application framework based on Seaside 2.0
 (http://beta4.com/seaside2/) that allows linear programming of
 web applications.
 
-Author:	Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
 WWW: http://borges.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/www/ruby-div/pkg-descr b/www/ruby-div/pkg-descr
index 5ca4b60..cdabd6b 100644
--- a/www/ruby-div/pkg-descr
+++ b/www/ruby-div/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Div is a web application server using dRuby and ERB2.
 You can write web applications like GUI programming.
 
-Author:	Masatoshi SEKI <m_seki@mva.biglobe.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=div
diff --git a/www/ruby-fcgi/pkg-descr b/www/ruby-fcgi/pkg-descr
index 15a344a..b9f81f5 100644
--- a/www/ruby-fcgi/pkg-descr
+++ b/www/ruby-fcgi/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby/fcgi is the FastCGI library for Ruby.
 
-Author:	MoonWolf <moonwolf@moonwolf.com>, et al.
 WWW: http://rubyforge.org/projects/fcgi/
diff --git a/www/ruby-google/pkg-descr b/www/ruby-google/pkg-descr
index 3b7b834..2955edd 100644
--- a/www/ruby-google/pkg-descr
+++ b/www/ruby-google/pkg-descr
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ the API more accessible for everyday use.
 
 Demonstration programs are included in the archive.
 
-Author:	Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 WWW: http://www.caliban.org/ruby/
diff --git a/x11/ruby-X11/pkg-descr b/x11/ruby-X11/pkg-descr
index bd4d4f5..c57cfe8 100644
--- a/x11/ruby-X11/pkg-descr
+++ b/x11/ruby-X11/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 RubyX11 is a fully reflective X11 client library.
 
-Author:	matju (Mathieu Bouchard) <matju@sympatico.ca>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=rubyx11