Bug#697565: lintian: dsc field original-maintainer is unknown to lintian
Nick Black <nick.black@sprezzatech.com> writes:
> I can assure you that close to 90% of SprezzOS packages use the flag, as
> do a great many Ubuntu packages. Furthermore, anyone following the Debian
> documentation at
> http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines
> is going to use this field. Please see "Packages", second line:
> "When modifying source packages, rename the Maintainer field to
> XSBC-Original-Maintainer and add a new Maintainer field."
> If we're not going to know about this field in lintian, perhaps it
> oughtn't be recommended to all derivatives. The field being useful,
> however, I hope it will be retained.
Just to clarify, the only thing I was objecting to was to allowing the
header globally, as opposed to only in derivative profiles. I'm not sure
that it makes sense to introduce it into Debian proper, and personally
would like to have Lintian warn me if I had the header in my packaging.
But it may be that I'm overthinking this; I suppose it's hard to see what
actual harm the header causes in Debian proper and one person seems to
find it useful.
I certainly have no objections to recognizing the header for derivatives,
where it serves a very useful purpose.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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