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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Matthias,

Quoting Matthias Klumpp (2021-09-25 20:02:41)
> Am Sa., 25. Sept. 2021 um 19:04 Uhr schrieb Jonas Smedegaard 
> <jonas.smedegaard at puri.sm>:
> >
> > Quoting Carsten Schoenert (2021-09-25 18:08:11)
> > > Am 25.09.21 um 12:09 schrieb Guido Günther:
> > >
> > > >> What is the rationale behind that note?

> I'm late to the party, but there actually is/was a rationale for 
> keeping the Uploaders field intact: It's simply that we don't need to 
> modify it for PureOS as all packages are effectively team-maintained 
> by PureOS developers anyway, and by changing it there would be one 
> more thing to amend and one more delta to Debian to take care of. So 
> leaving it as-is is just a convenience/laziness issue ;-)
> 
> I have no feelings in either direction for changing the status quo (if 
> we do, having a tool like Ubuntu's update-maintainer[1] would be nice 
> though...)

Thanks for the historical insight, Matthias.

I certainly think that we should provide accurate information - and as a 
minimum we should comply with Debian Policy which defines the Uploaders 
field as containing...

> List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the package

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#uploaders

I.e. I find it misleading for that field to contain email addresses of 
*upstream* co-maintainers.


 - Jonas

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