Re: PW#5-12: New upload procedure
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Christian Schwarz wrotee, while discussing the
proposed (and agreed upon) changes to dpkg-genchanges and dinstall to
make the closing of bugs etc. run more smoothly:
> Another suggestion was to change the "Maintainer:" field to "Developer:",
> "Uploader:" or whatever, since this field does not list the actual
> maintainer taken from the control file, but the person listed in the
> changelog entry (who might be someone else than the "Maintainer" of the
> package, e.g., for NMU's). Opinions?
There did not appear to be any replies at the time. I intend to make
the required changes to the relevant scripts over the next few days,
so if we could reach a decision on this point, it would be great.
Julian
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