Re: adding oneself to uploaders (Re: Backport for icecast2)
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
>> Hi Vincent,
>>
>> On Freitag, 18. April 2014, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>>> Debdiff looks fine. Backports policy dictates that you should always
>>> avoid unnecessary changes, and that includes adding your name to
>>> Maintainers/Uploaders (you'd do that only if you were actively
>>> maintaining the package in sid).
>>
>> that's wrong, I do this all the time, so that these packages show up on
>> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=holger@debian.org and noone has
>> complained so far.
>
> Ah, I didn't think of DDPO as a possible use case for adding one's
> name to Maintainers/Uploaders in a backported package. I'm not sure if
> this is common practice, but I can't come up with anything to complain
> about. :)
>
>> It's true that unnecessary changes are to avoided though :)
>
> Either way, if this was Robert's only change aside from bumping
> d/changelog, I don't think I would've rejected the package...
Without adding one to Uploaders, wouldn't they be shown under
"Sponsored/other uploads" DDPO section? If so, unnecessary change.
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