On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:40:24AM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: > David R. Morrison wrote: > [] > >The error report came to this list because fink-devel is listed as the > >maintainer. > > One (minor) question in this context is how the package database > determines the maintainer when different versions of a package have > different maintainers. From looking at examples it seems to me that the > pdb takes the maintainer of the version in the oldest tree,
Looking at package.php, it appears that all the fields taht are not specificly noted as from a particular version (DescDetail, Section, Maintainer, Homepage, License, parent/child info) are all teken from the oldest version in the pdb. > which may > not be optimal, because the maintainer of the most recent version is > more likely to be active. Has also caused me problems when the Homepage or License changes, though these cases (esp the latter) are rather rare. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
