On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:50:09PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > Debian developers set the Maintainer field to themselves(or a team), when > > > they > > > upload to Debian. The upstream author is only mentioned in the copyright > > > file. > > > > > > Ubuntu should do something similiar. Set the Maintainer field to someone > > > from > > > their group, and mention debian in the copyright(or other appropriate > > > place). > > > > I would very much appreciate if folks would review > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html and consider the > > points that I raise there. I put some effort into collating the issues > > which came up the last time and presenting them. > > > > It is important, in particular, to account for the fact that Ubuntu is not > > the only Debian derivative, and that proposals like yours would amount to > > Debian derivatives being obliged to fork *every source package in Debian* > > for the sake of changing a few lines of text. > > Modify the incoming processor, so that the Packages and Sources files get the > correct info.
The .dsc and .diff.gz would still have the original values, and the copyright file can't be modified this way. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
