Re: Proposal: a more general and flexible appoach of packages.

[Martin Schulze <joey@tapiola.Infodrom.North.DE>]

joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com wrote:
> >  a) Use me@debian.org or me@master.debian.org in the maintainer field
> >     of package foo.
> 
> That still leaves in the dependency on the physical maintainer.  It also
> makes the information in the Packages file authoritative for the
> maintainer information.  This is Bad for several reasons, only one of them
> being that the Packages file might be outdated.

The database is created out of the .dsc files, regenerated daily.

Regards,

	Joey

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