Re: "Team uploads"
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:05:40PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:52:54AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit :
> >
> > In Debian we have several teams working on maintaining large numbers
> > of packages (pkg-games, pkg-perl, pkg-gnome for example). I
> > proposed[1] to silence the lintian NMU warnings in the case of "team
> > uploads"; where the person doing the upload is a member of the team in
> > Maintainers but is not present in Uploaders. Does anyone think this
> > concept of "team uploads" has merit?
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> I think that it is a good concept, but the linian warning has probably a good
> reason to exist. For instance, if a bug is closed as part of a "Team upload",
> won't the BTS expect a NMU acknowledgement anyway?
But it's not an NMU, the Team is effectively the maintainer.
If the team isn't the maintainer, it's not team-maintained, by
definition, I'd say.
Michael
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