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). -- .../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ / -/ ../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/ -.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ / ../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../ ---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
