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Author eric.araujo
Recipients akitada, eric.araujo, jbelmonte, tarek
Date 2010-11-12.01:23:14
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From PEP 345: “Note that this field is intended for use when a project is being maintained by someone other than the original author: it should be omitted if it is identical to Author.”

It’s therefore logical that maintainer wins over author: The metadata file wants a contact point, so if the original author is not active anymore and there is another person acting as maintainer, the maintainer is the contact.

This is IMO a documentation bug, which I’m assigning to distutils2 (distutils docs only get quick fixes for things that don’t work at all).
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Date User Action Args
2010-11-12 01:23:17eric.araujosetrecipients: + eric.araujo, jbelmonte, tarek, akitada
2010-11-12 01:23:17eric.araujosetmessageid: <1289524997.62.0.958691917031.issue962772@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-11-12 01:23:14eric.araujolinkissue962772 messages
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