Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: >From PEP 345: “Note that this field is intended for use when a project is >being maintained by someone other than the original author: it should be >omitted if it is identical to Author.”
It’s therefore logical that maintainer wins over author: The metadata file wants a contact point, so if the original author is not active anymore and there is another person acting as maintainer, the maintainer is the contact. This is IMO a documentation bug, which I’m assigning to distutils2 (distutils docs only get quick fixes for things that don’t work at all). ---------- components: +Distutils2, Documentation -Distutils versions: +3rd party -Python 2.7, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue962772> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
