Transition to Ubuntu specific Maintainer: fields
Scott Ritchie
scott at open-vote.org
Mon Feb 19 22:40:10 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 14:32 +0100, Lut!n wrote:
>
>
> 2007/2/19, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>:
> Hello Ubuntu developers,
>
> a fair while ago, the Debian project collectively decided that
> Ubuntu
> source and binary packages should not carry Debian's
> maintainers in
> their Maintainer: field any more. Instead, we shall preserve
> them in
> the Original-Maintainer: field and put an Ubuntu specific
> contact into
> Maintainer:. Please see the specification [1] for details.
>
> With the recent dpkg upload [2], this now gets enforced. I. e.
> dpkg-source (called from dpkg-buildpackage and debuild)
> refuses to
> create a source package if the version number indicates Ubuntu
> modifications, but the Maintainer address is not Ubuntuish.
Does this mean I need an @ubuntu.com email address? I maintain a
universe package (Wine).
Thanks,
Scott Ritchie
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