[issue962772] when both maintainer and author provided, author discarded

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> added the comment:

the Author metadata uses the maintainer field *or* the author field if
the maintainer is not provided.

What would be the rational to add a new maintainer field in the PKG-INFO ?

In the first place, I am wondering what is the rational, today, to use
the maintainer argument at all.

John, can you detail this ?

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assignee:  -> tarek
type:  -> feature request
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1

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