The Wanderer writes ("Re: problems in gjots2 and Debian"): > If it really is intended that the listed Maintainer be on an equal > footing with any and all listed Uploaders, and there's no semantic > difference between these fields - just the arbitrary limitation that one > of them can't have more than one entry - wouldn't it make sense to > deprecate the Maintainer: field, and move towards using Uploaders: only?
IMO it would be better to abolish Uploaders in favour of fixing the original spec bug in Maintainers. Also, easier, because as a practical matter, there is a lot of software that will fail if it fails to find a Maintainer field but won't really mind what it contains. Please go ahead and push this. Last time I tried to fix it, there were too many objections and the whole thing was obviously too much hard work. Ian.