[PureOS] Droping the Uploader field in d/control within PureOS?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Carsten Schoenert (2021-09-24 18:49:27)
> as I'm still quite new with contributing to PureOS I faced a question 
> yesterday while working on T1076 and T1079.
> 
> While preparing seahorse for byzantium lintian was complaining about 
> 'invalid-field-for-derivative' for the still existing Uploaders field.
> 
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/invalid-field-for-derivative
> 
> Looking at 
> https://tracker.pureos.net/w/development/packaging_overview/ there is 
> mentioned "Note that the Uploaders: field remains untouched."
> 
> What is the rationale behind that note?
> 
> Personally I believe that Lintian is of course right here, I myself 
> e.g have users that email me from time to time about some problems in 
> KiCad e.g. which aren't rooted in Debian as they use the PPA for 
> Ubuntu, but got my email address from the package data. I quite almost 
> need to point the users to the PPA owner. It's not that difficult but 
> sometimes annoying me.
> 
> So why should a user of PureOS get in contact with the uploaders of an 
> package in Debian if he correctly should contact the packagers for 
> PureOS?
> 
> Why is this error message in lintian currently ignored for PureOS?

I don't have the answer to your question, but can point to 
https://tracker.pureos.net/T1023 where (as far as I know) this was last 
discussed, and seemingly inconclusively despite the state of that issue.


 - Jonas

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