Hi fellas, today I looked about some of our web pages like bugs.d.o, packages.d.o, lintian.d.o in order to collect some information about building something like the often proposed 'developer portal'. However I noticed a problem. I am not sure how to uniquely identify a Debian Developer resp. Package Maintainer. OK, if one is DD, he has got a dn at db.d.o. But: - control files list often more than one email address for one maintainer - control files list often different names (e.g. with or without a middle name) for the same maintainer. - we have maintainers not recorded in the LDAP tree Now, when one wants to create say a portal providing links to all pages of interest for a certain package maintainer that would not be possible without having inconsistent or incomplete data on that 'portal'. This is because the relation "package(s) <-> maintainer" is not uniquely and bi-directionally resolvable. Me for my part I could have packages listing: Package: foo Maintainer: Joerg Wendland <joergland@debian.org> Package: bar Maintainer: Joerg Wendland <jorgland@sol.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de> Package: foobar Maintainer: Jörg Wendland <joergland@debian.org> This is actually not really desired and my packages all (Ok, they are not as numerous) have identical Maintainer fields. But this is possible. Now consider the task 'give me all packages of mine'. I could neither use the email address nor the name. Or 'give me all packages of the person maintaining package foo'. Any comments? Perhaps even solutions? Thanx, Jo"Da Confusa"erg PS: kick [here] if this was discussed before... -- Joerg "joergland" Wendland GPG: 51CF8417 FP: 79C0 7671 AFC7 315E 657A F318 57A3 7FBD 51CF 8417
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