Eduard Bloch wrote:
So I suggest to set a kind of soft policy: every package maintained by a group should keep a file (with a common filename) in the Debian diff, which tells all neccessary things: - who are members of that group - which person from this group is responsible for exactly this package - homepage, project page (alioth/Sourceforge/Berlios/...) - where is the repository and how can you get it, not too much, but enough information for average skilled maintainer to get it running I suggest debian/README.Debian.Maintainers as the filename.
seems logical. Do we really need the 'README.' part? Does this need to be installed in /usr/share/doc or will this only be found in the source. Personally, I see no reason to put it in the deb.
Another choice would be in the source section of the control file. Source: mysource Section: blah Priority: extra Maintainer: Bob <bob@debian.org> Maintainers: Bob <bob@debian.org>, George <george@debian.org> Project-Home: http://alioth.debian.org/mysource Build-Depends: whatever Standards-Version: 3.6.1Obviously, this is more invasive but if it is truly as widestread then perhaps the project tools should catch up.
I left the Maintainer in place to allow for some backwards compatibility. This could be the 'captain' of the project.