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Re: packaging control field Uploaders



On 9/26/21 05:14, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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.

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).

+1

Some may want it included to show their involvement in the process, however.  Maintaining it *could have* meant originally creating a debian package for it and other various work (rules file for specific example thought it is much nicer now).  It may be as simple as moving it to a CONTRIBUTORS file or something along those lines.

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