Transition to Ubuntu specific Maintainer: fields
Joseph Price
pricechild at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 20 01:35:18 UTC 2007
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Pricey
On 2/19/07, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
> 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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