On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:07:25PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > You're already rebuilding the package, which I expect entails possible > Depends: line changes and other things which would pretty clearly > 'normally' entail different Debian package revision numbers; changing > the Maintainer field at the same time is just not that hard, > *especially* when you're rebuilding the package. > > You're implying that this is alot of work and it's just not. It's also > not 'forking' in any real sense of the word. You don't even have to > change the version number if you don't want to. When done in Debian, > it's also not even a new source package (in general anyway) as the thing > which has the Maintainer field is actually the patch.
You quite obviously haven't read http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html yet, where I wrote (among other important things), "it would be fairly straightforward for Ubuntu to override the Maintainer field in binary packages". I explained exactly what is and isn't difficult and for whom. If you're going to attack me, please do it on the basis of what I've actually said. Honestly, I expected better from you, give that you've acted like a human being toward me on IRC on several occasions in the past. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]