[issue3686] PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: This is now defined in PEP 345 and implemented in Distutils2. -- components: +Distutils2 -Distutils status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue3686] PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org

[issue3686] PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: The point is, the current implementation of Distutils will take the maintainer *or* the author for the Author field. So this relates to #962772 : do we want to keep maintainer and maintainer_email at all ? I'll push a mail in Distutils-SIG about this. --

[issue3686] PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers

Akira Kitada added the comment: Maintainer field is not specified in PEP 241, PEP 314 and even PEP 345. Can we add this field to PEP 345? -- nosy: +akitada, tarek type: -> feature request ___ Python tracker __

[issue3686] PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers

New submission from Marc-Andre Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The PKG-INFO file currently only provides an "Authors" field which is mapped to the DistributionMetadata.get_contact() information. However, the latter method is really meant to provide access to contact information and not authorship,