On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:57:14PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:20:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:37:17AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > >> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=lmamane&comaint=yes says I've > >> NMUed thinkpad, while what I've done is sponsor an NMU by > >> jdthood@yahoo.co.uk. > > [You] (among other things) should consider yourself responsible for > > any bugs introduced in that upload. > That is correct. But because I *sponsored* the upload doesn't mean the > person that prepared is "off the hook". True, but that didn't seem to be the issue you were raising in your bug report; you seemed to be objecting to listing the package on your own QA page, not to its absence from jdthood's page. > > I think it's perfectly appropriate for the qa.d.o web pages to > > facilitate this. > It would do so just as effectively by listing thinkpad in the > "sponsored upload" category (or a new "sponsored NMUs" category) on my > page. It would be _more_ efficient by making that NMU appear (as an > NMU) on jdthood@yahoo.co.uk's page (additionally to my page). > > No, in fact, an NMU is a "non-maintainer upload". You uploaded it, > > so you performed an NMU, > That's ridiculous. So if I merely signed it and I let > jdthood@yahoo.co.uk do the actual FTP upload of the material prepared > by him and signed by me, it would change anything? Actually, the web > page has no idea that this is not what happened. > jtdhood prepared the new version, he did the work => credit is > his. He's the NMUer. I implemented the "have a DD check this non-DD > (and hence untrusted)" step. The sponsorship. You're welcome to credit anyone you want, but if you sign an NMU, it's you that I intend to hold responsible for the contents. Your responsibility as someone uploading (or authorizing the upload of) changes to another maintainer's package is to *personally* verify that these changes are appropriate and correct, and to remedy them if you are mistaken. This is not a responsibility that can be delegated, and so for all intents and purposes, this is your NMU at least as much as it is the NMU of the sponsoree. > To take it from the other side, do you think it is a bug that the PTS > shows Thomas Hood's name, and not mine? I'm not sure what you're referring to here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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