On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:09:23PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 12:40:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Isn't this request contrary to the consensus identified in the poll on this > > subject earlier this year?
> err, poll ? I've never "voted" in such a poll, and I've had problems > with packages of mine living in ubuntu universe two times already, and > that's tiredsome. Especially because one of those users didn't want to > believe that I was not the "Ubuntu Maintainer" of that package, since my > name was in it. > Would I have had seen that poll, I would have been in favor of > renaming the Debian Maintainer: field into Debian-Maintainer: or > whatever else too. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/01/msg00276.html I guess I misremembered the outcome of the poll; it appears the preference expressed there was that "Maintainer" be automatically munged to "Debian-Maintainer" by derivatives. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]