Hi Tiago, On Samstag, 20. Februar 2016, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > There's something on the backporting guidelines that is not very clear > and makes anyone ask me why I'm doing this whenever I ask for a > sponsorship of a backport. The "Basic Rules"[1] section states the > following: > > "Do not do any changes to the package beside of backporting stuff." > > But the "Uploaders" subsection of "Best Practice" suggests[2] that if > add yourself to the "Uploaders" field, it becomes easier to follow the > packages though DDPO. > > To me, this changes looks completely related to the backport itself, > but for some people this may look like a package hijack. > > Can we update the guidelines to make this a little bit more clear? > Stating if one is supposed to do this or not? adding oneself to the Uploaders: field when doing backports is a well established practice (though not mandatory), in so far I think providing a patch to the website making this clear would be appreciated. The source code for the website lives at https://github.com/formorer/backports.debian.org cheers, Holger
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