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PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers #47936

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malemburg opened this issue Aug 26, 2008 · 4 comments
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PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers #47936

malemburg opened this issue Aug 26, 2008 · 4 comments
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BPO 3686
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The PKG-INFO file currently only provides an "Authors" field which is
mapped to the DistributionMetadata.get_contact() information.

However, the latter method is really meant to provide access to contact
information and not authorship, which is why it prefers the maintainer
infos over the actual author infos.

As a result, the maintainer can appear as author in the PKG-INFO file,
which is wrong.

Ideal would be to have both an "Author" and "Maintainer" field in the
PKG-FILE with 1-1 mappings to the setup() parameters.

@malemburg malemburg added the stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir label Aug 26, 2008
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akitada mannequin commented Feb 8, 2009

Maintainer field is not specified in PEP-241, PEP-314 and even PEP-345.
Can we add this field to PEP-345?

@akitada akitada mannequin added the type-feature A feature request or enhancement label Feb 8, 2009
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tarekziade mannequin commented Feb 8, 2009

The point is, the current implementation of Distutils will take the
maintainer *or* the author for the Author field.

So this relates to bpo-962772 : do we want to keep maintainer and
maintainer_email at all ?

I'll push a mail in Distutils-SIG about this.

@tarekziade tarekziade mannequin self-assigned this Feb 8, 2009
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tarekziade mannequin commented May 16, 2010

This is now defined in PEP-345 and implemented in Distutils2.

@tarekziade tarekziade mannequin removed the stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir label May 16, 2010
@tarekziade tarekziade mannequin closed this as completed May 16, 2010
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