Hello Stefano, Stefano Zacchiroli [2010-11-09 11:42 +0100]: > So, we might want to take this chance to discuss how to properly point > users to where the work which is part of the packages they use come > from. For instance, AFAICT we lack a standard (e.g. package fields) way > to say where a package come from (i.e. is the "most upstream" maintainer > Debian or Ubuntu?)
You mean the "most downstream" here? > and who is the "most upstream" maintainer. I think the machine readable copyright format would be an excellent place for this. It already has a "Maintainer:" field, which is a bit underspecified, though. I've seen packages where this has the Debian maintainer (which would be redundant, as it is in debian/control, and also often is a team), and the upstream maintainer. This could be extended to be something like: Maintainer: Joe Upstream <[email protected]> Debian-Maintainer: Utopia Team <pkg-uto...@..> On the other hand we already have the distro maintainers in debian/control. In Ubuntu we have moved the Debian maintainer to XSBC-Original-Maintainer: and set Maintainer: to "ubuntu-de...@.." for years already (as discussed years ago with Debian), so as long as debian/copyright specifies the real upstream maintainer, all information should be present already. Or did you mean something different here? Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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