[csw-maintainers] NMUs, non-maintainer uploads

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Fri Apr 12 20:45:59 CEST 2013


Yann Rouillard <yann at pleiades.fr.eu.org> writes:

> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/database/mysql-server-5.5
>>
>> ...it lists multiple maintainers. For a package such as MySQL, it
>> makes complete sense. I don't know the internals, but I'm pretty sure
>> that the list of maintainer is kept as a separate entity from the
>> changelog.
>
>
> The maintainers's information is located in the debian/control file, in the
> source package.

Our "control" file is the recipe, i.e., the Makefile. Having a variable
containing a list of maintainers seems to be a nice addition. What Dag
thinks about this?

-- 
Peter


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