Martin Schulze wrote:
> tonight I was thinking about implementing @authors.debian.org which
> would enable a way for us to get in touch with the upstream authors of
> some piece of software without the need of looking into the copyright
> file or digging in the source if the maintainer forgot to add the
> authors email into that file.
>
> What do you think about it?
[..]
> This would also need an adjustment for dpkg-source.
This is the change that's needed to pass the Author field through
the control file.
--- dpkg-source.orig Wed Oct 7 23:49:17 1998
+++ dpkg-source Wed Oct 7 23:57:25 1998
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
$i = 100;
grep ($fieldimps {$_} = $i--,
- qw (Source Version Binary Maintainer Architecture Standards-Version));
+ qw (Source Version Binary Maintainer Author Architecture
Standards-Version));
while (@ARGV && $ARGV[0] =~ m/^-/) {
$_=shift(@ARGV);
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
if (s/^C //) {
#print STDERR "G key >$_< value >$v<\n";
if (m/^Source$/) { &setsourcepackage; }
- elsif (m/^Standards-Version$|^Maintainer$/) { $f{$_}= $v; }
+ elsif (m/^Standards-Version$|^Maintainer$|^Author$/) { $f{$_}= $v;
}
elsif (s/^X[BC]*S[BC]*-//i) { $f{$_}= $v; }
elsif (m/^(Section|Priority|Files)$/ || m/^X[BC]+-/i) { }
else { &unknown('general section of control info file'); }
Regards,
Joey
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