[issue16108] Include maintainer information in register/upload

[Antti Haapala]

Antti Haapala added the comment:

I am the current maintainer of python-Levenshtein package on PyPI/Github, but I wrote about 0 % of the functionality; almost everything excepting bug fixes and Python 3 compatibility was written by the original author David Necas and possibly contributors; now I am contacted as the "author" of the package, a.k.a "why did you code it this way" - I do not know.

Currently PyPI does seem to have a field for both maintainer and author if I enter PKG-INFO data manually; these both would also be available on the page and JSON metadata etc. I'd really want to be able to generate the correct PKG-INFO automatically from the setup() arguments.

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