A lot of developers on the policy list seem to think that it would be better if package maintainers used their debian.org email address as the maintainer address for any packages they own.
I sympathize this and would like to declare my sympathy by doing just that. However, a preliminary question. Clearly I have a PGP key, and my name on that key is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, which is my std email address. I don't want to have to change and redistribute this key. I'm one of those lusers who uses debhelper, so I'd appreciate if someone could clarify the following points. It looks like the operative places for email is in debian/control and debian/changelog. Further, it looks like debian/changelog is parsed to determine who's PGP key to look for. OTOH, debian/control is used for the "Maintainer" field in the final .deb. This is correct, right? My real question is whether it's actually kosher to have divergance between my email address in the changelog (for the purposes of PGP'ing) and my email address in the control file? While we're at it, maybe it's not cool at all to have a maintainer address which diverges from the address on the PGP key? (I'm beginning to suspect I should have made a special PGP key just for package maintenance. Of course, I wouldn't know when I got signed up what my master.debian.org account name would be, at least not for sure.) .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
