[Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maintainer (optional)
> ---------------------
>
> A string containing the maintainer's name at a minimum; additional
> contact information may be provided.
>
> 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``.

I'm wondering whether Metadata 2.0 can help in rectifying the fact
that the contents of the Author field are blown away by the contents
of the Maintainer field when used with current tools (e.g. distutils,
Distribute/setuptools, PyPI) as described in issues 16403 and 16108,
etc ([1], [2]).  If backwards compatibility is the issue, maybe
Metadata 2.0 can help by providing the way forward.

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue16403
[2] http://bugs.python.org/issue16108

--Chris