diff Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst @ 82361:b65b6a0ebd44 3.2

Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in PKG-INFO
author Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org>
date Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:05:27 +0100
parents 45854c5b783c
children f57ddf3c3e5d
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--- a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst	Sat Feb 23 19:53:03 2013 +0100
+++ b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst	Sat Feb 23 21:05:27 2013 +0100
@@ -601,7 +601,8 @@
     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