Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in PKG-INFO
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 @@
+--------------------+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| *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 | |