Re: A Debian Who is Who
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:39:29AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> The karma.pl script blindly follows ... where the maintainer itself leads.
> It just picks the info off the Debian BTS and package db (I've forgotten the
> details as I wrote this a long time ago). See the code itself -- Kitame must
> have used different values in his debian/control fields.
>
> Proper "normalization" for maintainers would be nice, but it essentially
> requires a human to edit a master database and keep it up to date. An
> unrealistic goal if you ask me.
It's actually a rather reasonable goal. All you need to do is
index by GPG key id, rather than name. I believe
qa.debian.org/developer.php does something very similar.
Simon
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