On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: > Frankly, I do not think that the source package is the correct place for > the Maintainer / Uploaders data. There are plenty of cases where it > would make sense to update it "retroactively" after the package has been > uploaded (E.g. orphaned or adopting without an upload).
Indeed. Same for Homepage and watch files. > If we are planning on adding this kind of extra way of being "related" > to a package, which would not be stored in the package itself, could we > then look at pulling the Maintainer + Uploaders field out as well? Here is an old proposal for that: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep2/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
