Mailing List Archive: [issue962772] when both maintainer and author provided, author discarded

Akira Kitada <akitada@gmail.com> added the comment:

"""
from distutils.core import setup
setup(name="foo", author="bar", maintainer="baz")
"""
gives me
"""
Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: foo
Version: 0.0.0
Summary: UNKNOWN
Home-page: UNKNOWN
Author: baz
Author-email: UNKNOWN
License: UNKNOWN
Description: UNKNOWN
Platform: UNKNOWN
"""

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nosy: +akitada, tarek

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Tarek ZiadÃ© <ziade.tarek@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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