[maemo-developers] Porting packages from debian

[From: Marius Gedminas]

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
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