[issue12840] "maintainer" value clear the "author" value when register

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> Is not simpler (to understand) to keep always the approach to keep both?
Well, there needs to be one point of contact.  If someone takes the responsibility to make a project available on PyPI without asking the author to do it themselves, then that someone is responsible for the PyPI distribution.

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