[issue12840] "maintainer" value clear the "author" value when register

Éric Araujo added the comment: This was already explained in #962772. -- resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> when both maintainer and author provided, author discarded ___ Python tracker

[issue12840] "maintainer" value clear the "author" value when register

Éric Araujo added the comment: > Is not simpler (to understand) to keep always the approach to keep both? Well, there needs to be one point of contact. If someone takes the responsibility to make a project available on PyPI without asking the author to do it themselves, then that someone is r

[issue12840] "maintainer" value clear the "author" value when register

Luca Fabbri added the comment: I'm quite sure that after gettint ownership on an already existent package (with a different author inside) and I added the maintainer (with my name) I get the author override. But maybe I don't remember exactly... Is not simpler (to understand) to keep always t

[issue12840] "maintainer" value clear the "author" value when register

Éric Araujo added the comment: I think this is intended behavior. When the author of a project is the one to register with PyPI, they use the author and author_email fields, which get displayed at PyPI. When it is not the original author but someone else who packages and registers a project

[issue12840] "maintainer" value clear the "author" value when register

New submission from Luca Fabbri : I reported this problem in the pypi site issue tracker (issue 3396924): https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=513503&aid=3396924&group_id=66150 However it seems that is a python bug. If in one package's setup.py I provide maintainer (with email) and