Bug#697565: lintian: dsc field original-maintainer is unknown to, lintian
On 2013-01-08 14:18, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> Back in 2006, a discussion and poll were help in the Debian community to
> determine the most appropriate way to handle the Maintainer field in the
> package metadata for distributions derived from Debian.
>
> It has been voted and agreed to change the Maintainer field in the
> packages (across the board), but credit the original (Debian) maintainer
> in the XSBC-Original_Maintainer field.
>
> Please add this field to Ubuntu profile.
>
The Ubuntu profile has had this more or less since "day one" of vendor
specific data files[1].
> Reference: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField
>
> Thanks =)
>
> /me may or may not take on the challenge of creating a patch
>
> ps. is there a "derivative" profile which all derivatives inherit from?
>
No we do not atm. We could create a profile that is good starting point
for derivatives, but I am not sure how to make it a default profile for
derivatives without their own profile (with special casing).
~Niels
[1]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commitdiff;h=3502d023bd8cb6ab66216b8c5820a495e6b32c60
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