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Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’



On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 06:18:01AM +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> About renaming it: I feel it would be better to be explicit that it's an
> upstream thing. Thus, Upstream-Maintainer or Upstream-Contact, and
> perhaps also renaming Name: to Upstream-Name: at the same time. What do
> others think?

Upstream-Maintainer and Upstream-Name were the field names originally
proposed in the wiki.  I'm in favor of restoring these earlier names.

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