On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:12:39PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You seem to require a standard of attribution in the Maintainer field > >that Debian does not itself follow in our default procedures. To wit: > >NMUs _within_ Debian keep the Maintainer field unchanged > > Good point. If Ubuntu wishes to keep the Maintainer field the same, but > use NMU version numbers and add a "Changed-By:" field which is different, that > seems perfectly reasonable as well.
There is no Changed-By: field in source or binary packages which are NMUd in Debian, and Ubuntu *does* use something quite similar (though not identical) to NMU version numbers. An Ubuntu-specific upload of foo 1.0-1 is versioned 1.0-1ubuntu1. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
