* Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org) wrote: > I would very much appreciate if folks would review > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html and consider the > points that I raise there. I put some effort into collating the issues > which came up the last time and presenting them. > > It is important, in particular, to account for the fact that Ubuntu is not > the only Debian derivative, and that proposals like yours would amount to > Debian derivatives being obliged to fork *every source package in Debian* > for the sake of changing a few lines of text. You're already rebuilding the package, which I expect entails possible Depends: line changes and other things which would pretty clearly 'normally' entail different Debian package revision numbers; changing the Maintainer field at the same time is just not that hard, *especially* when you're rebuilding the package. You're implying that this is alot of work and it's just not. It's also not 'forking' in any real sense of the word. You don't even have to change the version number if you don't want to. When done in Debian, it's also not even a new source package (in general anyway) as the thing which has the Maintainer field is actually the patch. As I've pointed out before, this also just plain isn't Debian's problem. You keep asking for Debian to tell you what 'should' be in the Maintainer field but then you're ignoring the answer because you think it's hard. It's pretty clear what 'Debian' thinks *should* be in the field, or at least what most people would agree with; sorry that it's not the simple answer you want but you asked. Thanks, Stephen
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