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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/setupscript.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/setupscript.rst b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst index 8029243..ba78107 100644 --- a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst +++ b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst @@ -601,7 +601,8 @@ Notes: It is recommended that versions take the form *major.minor[.patch[.sub]]*. (3) - Either the author or the maintainer must be identified. + Either the author or the maintainer must be identified. If maintainer is + provided, distutils lists it as the author in :file:`PKG-INFO`. (4) These fields should not be used if your package is to be compatible with Python |