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

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@malemburg
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opened on Aug 26, 2008
BPO 3686
Nosy @malemburg, @tarekziade, @merwok, @akitada

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assignee = 'https://github.com/tarekziade'
closed_at = <Date 2010-05-16.12:39:35.700>
created_at = <Date 2008-08-26.08:32:32.689>
labels = ['type-feature']
title = 'PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers'
updated_at = <Date 2010-05-16.12:39:35.698>
user = 'https://github.com/malemburg'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue3686'
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  1. malemburg commented on Aug 26, 2008

    @malemburg
    malemburg
    on Aug 26, 2008
    MemberAuthor

    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.

  2. malemburg
    added
    stdlibStandard Library Python modules in the Lib/ directory
    on Aug 26, 2008

  3. akitada commented on Feb 8, 2009

    @akitada
    akitadamannequin
    on Feb 8, 2009
    Mannequin

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

  4. akitada
    added
    type-featureA feature request or enhancement
    on Feb 8, 2009

  5. tarekziade commented on Feb 8, 2009

    @tarekziade
    tarekziademannequin
    on Feb 8, 2009
    Mannequin

    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.

  6. tarekziade
    self-assigned this
    on Feb 8, 2009

  7. tarekziade commented on May 16, 2010

    @tarekziade
    tarekziademannequin
    on May 16, 2010
    Mannequin

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

  8. tarekziade
    removed
    stdlibStandard Library Python modules in the Lib/ directory
    on May 16, 2010
  9. tarekziade
    closed this as completedon May 16, 2010
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    transferred this issue fromon Apr 10, 2022
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