Re: debian/control files: Identical maintainer and uploaders
On 2014-01-30 07:25, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Simon Kainz wrote:
>
>> So what's the idea in having the same person ("same" in this context means
>> same email address) in both Maintainer: and Uploaders: field? Some leftovers
>> from someone's transition from DM to DD? Or maybe a workaround to fix some
>> issues concerning uploading rights? I'm just curious.
>
> That is a bit strange, I wonder if it warrants a pedantic lintian warning.
>
Lintian already checks for it, although it apparently does so with a
much stricter matching[1].
~Niels
[1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/maintainer-also-in-uploaders.html
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