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Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu



Le mardi 17 janvier 2006 à 12:46 -0600, Adam Heath a écrit :
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Anthony Towns wrote:
> 
> > > What I find very dissapointing is that mdz asked on debian-devel twice
> > > for a decision from debian how ubuntu should handle the maintainer Field
> > > without any luck:
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/01/msg00678.html
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/01/msg00966.html
> 
> Debian developers set the Maintainer field to themselves(or a team), when they
> upload to Debian.  The upstream author is only mentioned in the copyright
> file.
> 
> Ubuntu should do something similiar.  Set the Maintainer field to someone from
> their group, and mention debian in the copyright(or other appropriate place).

Even better, they could stop crediting themselves for changes initiated
by Debian developers.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news/2005-December/000033.html
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