On 2013-01-08 14:18, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Back in 2006, a discussion and poll were help in the Debian community to > determine the most appropriate way to handle the Maintainer field in the > package metadata for distributions derived from Debian. > > It has been voted and agreed to change the Maintainer field in the > packages (across the board), but credit the original (Debian) maintainer > in the XSBC-Original_Maintainer field. > > Please add this field to Ubuntu profile. >
The Ubuntu profile has had this more or less since "day one" of vendor specific data files[1]. > Reference: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField > > Thanks =) > > /me may or may not take on the challenge of creating a patch > > ps. is there a "derivative" profile which all derivatives inherit from? > No we do not atm. We could create a profile that is good starting point for derivatives, but I am not sure how to make it a default profile for derivatives without their own profile (with special casing). ~Niels [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commitdiff;h=3502d023bd8cb6ab66216b8c5820a495e6b32c60 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
