Hi! On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 12:46:44 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.16.10
> A lot of Ubuntu packages emit this warning on build: > > dpkg-deb: warning: '<package>/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined > field 'Original-Maintainer' > dpkg-deb: warning: ignoring 1 warning about the control file(s) > > In Ubuntu we encourage the use of XSBC-Original-Maintainer, thus we > shouldn't warn about it. I thought this was Ubuntu specific, but was > told that I should file a bug upstream for inclusion instead. > > So I'm sending a patch to add "Original-Maintainer" as a known > header field in debian/control. The reason I've never done this myself (the patch is trivial, and ideally it would also cover the source packages), is because it does not work when there's a derivative of a derivative, etc, so it's not a generic solution. I'll ponder about this. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
