Bug#697565: lintian: dsc field original-maintainer is unknown to lintian
Nick Black <nick.black@sprezzatech.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery left as an exercise for the reader:
>> I certainly have no objections to recognizing the header for derivatives,
>> where it serves a very useful purpose.
> Outstanding. I'm sorry if I misunderstood you! In that case, rather than
> forking, I'll just maintain this as a patch in the SprezzOS package.
We do have a mechanism for adding information about derivatives in the
form of profiles. I don't know if SprezzOS already has one, or if that
facility would handle this particular case. (I'm a bit behind in
following recent development.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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