Hello Ubuntu developers, a fair while ago, the Debian project collectively decided that Ubuntu source and binary packages should not carry Debian's maintainers in their Maintainer: field any more. Instead, we shall preserve them in the Original-Maintainer: field and put an Ubuntu specific contact into Maintainer:. Please see the specification [1] for details.
With the recent dpkg upload [2], this now gets enforced. I. e. dpkg-source (called from dpkg-buildpackage and debuild) refuses to create a source package if the version number indicates Ubuntu modifications, but the Maintainer address is not Ubuntuish. The new default values for these fields are: Ubuntu Core Developers <[email protected]> for packages in main and restricted, and Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[email protected]> for packages in universe and multiverse. However, if a particular package deserves a more specific contact, then it is encouraged to use a personal or team mailing list contact (however, it must be an @ubuntu.com address). In source package's debian/control fields, the original maintainer must be preserved in the field XSBC-Original-Maintainer: dpkg will then create an 'Original-Maintainer:' field in the .dsc (flag 'S'), .deb (flag 'B') and .changes (flag 'C') files. If you are interested in the details of this XSBC magic, please see [3]. In the next four weeks (until Feisty's beta freeze) I will coordinate the necessary 129 source package rebuilds which are necessary for getting all binary packages in Ubuntu main fixed for the new maintainer fields. If you are maintaining a particular set of packages that matter size-wise, and you are sure that you want to upload a new version in the next month, please add them to [4]. Thank you for your attention, Martin Pitt on behalf of the Ubuntu distro team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField [2] http://librarian.launchpad.net/6442300/dpkg_1.13.24ubuntu4_source.changes [3] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s5.7 [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaintainerFieldRebuilds -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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