Hi, tonight I was thinking about implementing @authors.debian.org which would enable a way for us to get in touch with the upstream authors of some piece of software without the need of looking into the copyright file or digging in the source if the maintainer forgot to add the authors email into that file.
What do you think about it?
Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] would redirect the mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] who is the current developer of hypermail.
An easy way to implement this would be to simply add a line to the
source section of debian/control of each package like
Source: gtkfind
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Author: Matt Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <-------- this one
Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0
Package: gtkfind
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: Graphical File Finder
This package provides a graphical file finding program.
This would also need an adjustment for dpkg-source.
What do you think about this?
Regards,
Joey
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