Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:57:51PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> writes:
>> > I don't agree. This isn't even the case within Debian. Binary-only NMUs
>> > don't modify the source package, even though the binaries are recompiled.
>>
>> They obviously do. The version is bumped and a new changelog entry is
>> added.
>
> Yes. And then the source used to build that binNMU is thrown away. It's
> a *binary* NMU, you don't see a sourceful upload with that.
Which means the Maintainer field in the binary package could easily be
changed.
MfG
Goswin
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