On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:55:27AM +0200, Ryan Pavlik wrote: > Graham Cobb wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 08:58:29 Arto Karppinen wrote: > > > >> If i get a debian package sources from debian website and compile it in > >> Maemo, what should i do to debian/* files? ... > >> - Should i change myself as maintainer when i have no idea about the > >> internals of the lib? > >> > > > > Personally I would say yes, and I do for the packages I build. It doesn't > > seem sensible to leave the maintainer set to a person who has never even > > heard of Maemo and would not know how to contact me if someone contacted > > them > > about a packaging problem. If someone had a real query about the code I > > could always pass it on to the Debian maintainer. ... > Ubuntu discussed this same thing, and ended up adding Debian Maintainer > or similar field to the control file. You might want to google for that > and follow their lead, so that debian derivs get some sort of de-facto > standard there.
XSBC-Original-Maintainer. But then what do you do when you port a Ubuntu package that already has both Maintainer: (the ubuntu person) and XSBC-Original-Maintainer: (the debian person) in debian/control? Marius Gedminas -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security.
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