Colin Watson writes ("Re: Bug#426752: Ubuntu-specific Maintainer: field
processing, safety check"):
> I've attached an updated version of the patch Ian sent, adjusted for the
> changes in dpkg-source in the intervening time and with a stricter check
> on DEBEMAIL before promoting this from a warning to an error.
Personally (I'm now no longer wearing any Ubuntu hat, so purely from a
Debian point of view) I don't think it's a problem to make a special
case for Ubuntu here. When we have three or six distros all wanting
to do this we can invent a general hook mechanism or whatever.
If we try to invent a general hook now we risk creating the wrong kind
of generalisation, because we don't really know what other downstreams
(or sidestreams or whatever) might want.
Also there is, for me, another way to look at it: Debian should be
sensibly useable to build Ubuntu packages and work as an Ubuntu
developer. I know that the Ubuntu project would very much prefer its
developers to do their Ubuntu work on Ubuntu rather than Debian
(indeed when I was a Canonical employee this policy was made quite
clear to me) but of course the Debian project will have a different
view :-).
So I think that it is fine and good for Debian to contain machinery
which allows a Debian system to be effective for working on Ubuntu,
and I think this change falls into that categeory.
Ian.
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