Bug#697565: lintian: dsc field original-maintainer is unknown to lintian
Russ Allbery left as an exercise for the reader:
> 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.)
Yeah, I saw that Ubuntu had one in there. There didn't seem to be any
mechanism by which one could specify data for "all derivatives" though, so
it was a choice of adding a SprezzOS section for this (and then adding it to
all other such sections), or a global recognition.
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