On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Christian Schwarz wrotee, while discussing the > proposed (and agreed upon) changes to dpkg-genchanges and dinstall to > make the closing of bugs etc. run more smoothly: > > > Another suggestion was to change the "Maintainer:" field to "Developer:", > > "Uploader:" or whatever, since this field does not list the actual > > maintainer taken from the control file, but the person listed in the > > changelog entry (who might be someone else than the "Maintainer" of the > > package, e.g., for NMU's). Opinions? > > There did not appear to be any replies at the time. I intend to make > the required changes to the relevant scripts over the next few days, > so if we could reach a decision on this point, it would be great.
I like the term "Uploader", for the person who did the upload. -- "00f99feec90136eb38bbb6632b26282c" (a truly random sig)
