Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:

> Here's a proposed patch that cleans up the wording of Maintainer,
> Uploaders, and Changed-By to reflect current practice.  There is another
> outstanding bug in this area to document further restrictions on
> Maintainer and Uploaders, but this is the easy part so I wanted to
> resolve this first.

> The following patch tightens the syntax of Maintainer to a must,
> tightens the use of comma as a separator in Uploaders to a must, permits
> people to use multi-line Uploaders fields (we were waiting for the lenny
> release), and is explicit that the syntax of Changed-By is the same as
> Maintainer and is a bit clearer about what goes into that field.

This has been merged for the next release.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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