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Best Practices: Uploaders field



On 2015-06-07, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Please explain next time that you ALSO added yourself to the Uploaders
> in d/control. Only after reading the contributers page of bpo did I
> realize why you probably did it (I assume you keep an eye on [1]). If
> not for that reason, I would rather not have that change.

I've seen it mentioned a few times where people add themselves to
backports and then get critiqued for it, which seems a little
inconsistant with the section defining "Best Practices" on the
"Contribute" page.

  http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index12h3

Seems like to me either the Contribute page should either remove this
suggestion, or people should stop asking for this to be removed from
packaging in sponsorship requests.

I don't have strong opinions either way, but there are enough challenges
for peole to package a backport correctly... sponsors should at least
respond consistantly with the "Best Practices" listed on the
"Contribute" page.


Interestingly enough, I don't see a mention of "Minimal Changes
Necessary" in the "Best Practices" section, which seems like one of the
main best practices for backports...


Thanks to everyone who works on packaging backports, sponsoring
backports, or the infrastructure to make it all work!


live well,
  vagrant

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