Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in PKG-INFO

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Petri Lehtinen 2013-02-23 21:05:27 +01:00
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It is recommended that versions take the form *major.minor[.patch[.sub]]*.
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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`.
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These fields should not be used if your package is to be compatible with Python