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From: | Michael Albinus |
Subject: | bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers |
Date: | Mon, 24 May 2021 14:16:37 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes: Hi Christopher, >> The reason why I want to deprecate lm-maintainer is that this informs >> users of that function that some packages may have more than one >> maintainer and that it is now possible and (I dare say) encouraged to >> acknowledge them all. > > One can extract that information from the code if history files are > maintained. We must not confound maintainers and contributors. While it's possible to find the contributors of a package from (vc) history, I don't see how to determine the maintainers this way. Best regards, Michael.
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