On Wed, 07 Oct, 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > Hi, > > tonight I was thinking about implementing @authors.debian.org which > would enable a way for us to get in touch with the upstream authors of > some piece of software without the need of looking into the copyright > file or digging in the source if the maintainer forgot to add the > authors email into that file. >
And while we are doing it how about implementing @m86k.porter.debian.org or @arm.builder.debian.org for the person who has recomplied the package on different machines (m86k, powerpc, alpha, arm, etc). > An easy way to implement this would be to simply add a line to the > source section of debian/control of each package like Likewise with builder, or not? Would you need m86k-builder and arm-builder and powerpc-builder or would it be done differently? > This would also need an adjustment for dpkg-source. -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
