Re: checkbot: package has unhelpful garbage for maintainer field
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 13:40:04 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Maintainer: nobody@nowhere
> > Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
>
> "nobody@nowhere" is not helpful.
>
> If the package is not maintained by anyone, the maintainer should be set
> to the Debian QA Group.
This happens when you build the package using pbuilder and don't set
DEBEMAIL in your pbuilderrc. The maintainer field in debian/control is
not used in that case. Might be a bug, I didn't investigate whose.
Kind regards,
Martin
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