For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:07:40AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> What I find very dissapointing is that mdz asked on debian-devel twice
> for a decision from debian how ubuntu should handle the maintainer Field
> without any luck:
[...]
> This is a call for discussion: What does debian actually want? Do we
> really need to include a white or black list (and what exactly?) in
> apt-get, apt-cache and co to disable/mangling the Maintainer field of
> packages just imported from Debian? Or can we live with an less
> intrusive approach? 

How about renaming Maintainer to Debian-Maintainer in Ubuntu's binary
packages, and having a specific Ubuntu-Maintainer?

As Ubuntu recompiles all Debian packages anyway, this would only require
a (fairly minor) patch to dpkg-gencontrol.

This would make it crystal clear that Debian's packages in Ubuntu are
maintained by Ubuntu people, while you're not dropping the credit for
the Debian maintainer who's put in a lot of work; and for packages that
have not seen any Ubuntu-specific patches, you could leave out the
Ubuntu-Maintainer field (while still renaming the Maintainer field to
Debian-Maintainer).

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