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Re: Ubuntu and its "appropriation" of Debian maintainers



also sprach Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> [2005.05.03.0006 +0200]:
> Another option would be to leave the source package maintainer the
> same (to retain proper credit, etc.), but override the binary
> package maintainer during the build (to reflect that it is
> a different build, and also display a more appropriate name in
> "apt-cache show" etc.).
> 
> What do you think about this approach?

It would misappropriate any changes made by the Ubuntu maintainers
to the source package, no?

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