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| author | Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org> | 2013-02-23 20:05:27 (GMT) |
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| committer | Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org> | 2013-02-23 20:06:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 905b648754be0974f32cfd259bad7f6a7e3aebfb (patch) | |
| tree | 53edcc7868b100402a9de75f69d4bb111905ff74 /Doc/distutils/apiref.rst | |
| parent | ee4a20bad61b9315bb28e0162eefd7f0da110499 (diff) | |
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Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in PKG-INFO
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diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst index 74fba4a..c4127bd 100644 --- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst +++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst @@ -48,7 +48,10 @@ setup script). Indirectly provides the :class:`distutils.dist.Distribution` and +--------------------+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+ | *maintainer* | The name of the current | a string | | | maintainer, if different from | | - | | the author | | + | | the author. Note that if | | + | | the maintainer is provided, | | + | | distutils will use it as the | | + | | author in :file:`PKG-INFO` | | +--------------------+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+ | *maintainer_email* | The email address of the | a string | | | current maintainer, if | | |