Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:09:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I can definitely see the desire for this metadata, but it feels to me
>> like it would be better tracked in a separate file, such as Charles's
>> proposed upstream metadata file.
> In current practice, many maintainers include such information in
> debian/copyright. As long as this is the case, I think the format
> should provide for that in a more structured manner than a 'Comment'
> field allows. These fields are already marked as optional; if policy
> later dictates that this information shouldn't live in debian/copyright,
> we can always phase them out. Do you see any harm in this?
No, that's fine. I just wanted to be sure people realized that the
information is optional in debian/copyright.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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