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Re: dinstall can now announce packages & close bugs for you



jdg@maths.qmw.ac.uk (Julian Gilbey) writes:

> There was a suggestion a while back for the .changes file to have two
> fields, a Maintainer field and an Uploader field.  If these are
> identical, then it's a maintainer upload, otherwise it's an NMU.  If
> there's no Uploader field, then fall back to your heuristic.

I compare the maintainer names in the .dsc and the .changes.  The
Maintainer field in the .changes is really the uploaded, but I think
that's common knowledge by now.


Guy


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