Re: packaging control field Uploaders
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:14 AM Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> In PureOS we are currently discussing how to most sensibly handle
> Uploaders field when forking packages.
I think the right way to deal with the Uploaders field in any
situation is to pretend we live in a world where we have a single
Maintainers field instead of Maintainer+Uploaders. The Uploaders field
is a historical wart that really should never have been invented in
the first place.
> What do others think?
Translating the suggested pretending to the real world, I would say
one of two options:
if you rename Maintainer to Original-Maintainer then also rename
Uploaders to Original-Uploaders.
if you replace Maintainer then drop or replace Uploaders.
--
bye,
pabs
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