Hi,
tonight I was thinking about implementing @authors.debian.org which
would enable a way for us to get in touch with the upstream authors of
some piece of software without the need of looking into the copyright
file or digging in the source if the maintainer forgot to add the
authors email into that file.
What do you think about it?
Example: hypermail@authors.debian.org would redirect the mail to
kent@landfield.com who is the current developer of hypermail.
An easy way to implement this would be to simply add a line to the
source section of debian/control of each package like
Source: gtkfind
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
Author: Matt Grossman <mattg@oz.net> <-------- this one
Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0
Package: gtkfind
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: Graphical File Finder
This package provides a graphical file finding program.
This would also need an adjustment for dpkg-source.
What do you think about this?
Regards,
Joey
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