Re: Please upload when you adopted a package
On 29 Aug 2001, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
>
> Adrian> Hi, one note to everyone who adopts a paackge:
>
> Adrian> Please make a new upload that sets the maintainer to you
> Adrian> even if that's the only change in the upload. The reason
> Adrian> is that this marks that the package is adopted by you and
> Adrian> you'll get both copies of bug reports and mails that
> Adrian> people send to the package maintainer directly (e.g. via
> Adrian> packagename@packages.debian.org).
>
> However, then everybody has to download the package again even though
> nothing has changed. Especially significant if it is a large package.
>
> (not everyone has super-fast non-volume-charged Internet connections)
With the same argument you can argue that a maintainer mustn't upload a
package only to close a "fixed a typo in the package description" bug
or to fix a small lintian warning...
cu
Adrian
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