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[PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers

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Message #59 received at 48592 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Christopher Dimech <dimech <at> gmx.com>
Cc: 48592 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Subject: Re: bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and
 Maintainer library headers
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 14:16:37 +0200

Christopher Dimech <dimech <at> 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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