On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:21:27PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> [2005-11-24 10:21]: > > And the autobuilders get this value from where? They use the common way > > by looking into the changelog. > They get the correct entity, which is in the changelog (in the case of > the Debian Octave Group, it is pkg-octave-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org). > If something goes wrong with the autobuild, then this entity should be > contacted, not the person who did the upload. Why would the autobuilders > be unhappy with a mailing list as the maintainer entity? Bla, bla. The maintainer, which is listed in the control file, is the responsible entity. The people who changed the package is completely unrelated. > On the other hand, debian-installer needs to know who uploaded the > package and this informaation is in the Changed-By field of the changes > file, which will hopefully be correct for any future upload done by the > DOG members. First, what is DOG, I never heard about it. Second, I'm a member of the debian-installer team. I never say uploads with such entries. Bastian -- You're too beautiful to ignore. Too much woman. -- Kirk to Yeoman Rand, "The Enemy Within", stardate unknown
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