Hi Hamish. Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:44:50PM +0200, Carlos Prados wrote: > > My question is, can I just modify the maintainer field with "Carlos Prados > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" or even "Carlos Prados <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" in the > > next update of my packages? Or will this appear like an NMU? > > No, just go ahead and change it. An upload is considered an NMU > if the name in the changelog entry does not match the Maintainer > field in the control file. As long as you change both, it will be OK.
What is the reason for checking both name and email? Wouldn't email be satisfactory since we may safely suppose that one person uses one email address? My (sponsored) uploads look like NMU's because my name was changed but email was the same. Could you please shed any light on this? Thanks, -- Eray Ozkural (exa) Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
