Hi, In PureOS we are currently discussing how to most sensibly handle Uploaders field when forking packages. We already follow the [guideline] for Maintainer field: > When modifying source packages, rename the Maintainer field to > XSBC-Original-Maintainer and add a new Maintainer field. Guideline does not mention Uploaders field, however, so it is up in the air what to do about that. Our current practice is to leave it as-is, by the reasoning that it is irrelevant for us, is easier to do nothing, and it leads to a smaller delta. That practice leads to arguably misleading information, however: The uploaders in Debian is rarely if ever the uploaders in PureOS. The practice of Progress Linux (thanks to investigations in [issue] by Carsten Schönert) is to rename to XSBC-Original-Uploaders - i.e. using same prefix as for Maintainer field. Another practice - which I personally find more reasonable - is to remove the Uploaders field. My reasoning is that it has no relevancy for a forked package who was responsible for uploading within the upstream release process). What do others think? - Jonas [guideline]: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines#Packages [issue]: https://tracker.pureos.net/T1081 -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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