Dear subscribers, while preparing the submission of a Ruby application[1] as a .deb (prepared by gem2deb), I would like to clarify a few details in the files one has to adjust. At present, the application (MIT license) got 52 contributors; among them, there are four current and two past maintainers. The initial contributor is one of the past maintainers.
After reading two guides[2, 3], my three questions are: + file /debian/copyright, entry upstream-contact: The script based generation entered the email of the initial contributor of the project; maybe this was a piece of information extracted from the project's already existing copyright file. However, wouldn't it be more useful to insert either + a contact to one of the current maintainers, + a maintainer of the entry on https://rubygems.org/gems/mdl gem2deb uses, or + the address of the person submitting the .deb package to Debian, because file /debian/control includes an entry uploaders? + file /debian/copyright, entry copyright: The pattern suggested is ``` <years> <name name> <email address> ``` Does it suffice to sort this list in ascending order of the year of each contributor's first contribution? + file /debian/control, entry maintainer: By default, the Debian Ruby Team is added. Should I substitute this by name and email address of the four current maintainers of the project? With regards, Norwid [1] https://github.com/markdownlint/markdownlint/ [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Packaging [3] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Packaging/gem2deb
