[Distutils] "maintainer" definition

[Mark W. Alexander]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 amk at amk.ca wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:38:41PM +0100, Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
> > So in case the original author still works on this piece of software,
> > the maintainer field won't be filled?
> 
> Correct.

Wouldn't it be better to have the author and the maintainer fields be
the same if the author is still working on it? I would interpret a
blank maintainer field to be "unmaintained".

mwa
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