Re: Contacting authors

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Martin Schulze wrote:
> 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?

[..]

> This would also need an adjustment for dpkg-source.

This is the change that's needed to pass the Author field through
the control file.

--- dpkg-source.orig	Wed Oct  7 23:49:17 1998
+++ dpkg-source	Wed Oct  7 23:57:25 1998
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 
 $i = 100;
 grep ($fieldimps {$_} = $i--,
-      qw (Source Version Binary Maintainer Architecture Standards-Version));
+      qw (Source Version Binary Maintainer Author Architecture Standards-Version));
 
 while (@ARGV && $ARGV[0] =~ m/^-/) {
     $_=shift(@ARGV);
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
         if (s/^C //) {
 #print STDERR "G key >$_< value >$v<\n";
             if (m/^Source$/) { &setsourcepackage; }
-            elsif (m/^Standards-Version$|^Maintainer$/) { $f{$_}= $v; }
+            elsif (m/^Standards-Version$|^Maintainer$|^Author$/) { $f{$_}= $v; }
             elsif (s/^X[BC]*S[BC]*-//i) { $f{$_}= $v; }
             elsif (m/^(Section|Priority|Files)$/ || m/^X[BC]+-/i) { }
             else { &unknown('general section of control info file'); }

Regards,

	Joey

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