[New-bugs-announce] [issue3686] PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

New submission from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:

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.

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components: Distutils
messages: 71970
nosy: lemburg
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: PKG-INFO file should differentiate between authors and maintainers
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1

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