Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:03:03 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
[pkg-ruby]
> Maintainer: "main responsible person for the package" (ie best contact
> point)
> Uploaders: the team mailing list, + all the members of the team
> (auto-generated using a cdbs rule)
It's interesting that you bring this up because in the pkg-perl team
there were discussions about "doing it the pk-ruby way" (but up to
now almost everybody disliked the idea).
> The perl team, on the other hand, uses the different scheme:
> Maintainer: "main responsible person for the package"
> Uploaders: the team mailing list, + members who actually care for the
> package (who have touched it in the past, for example).
In fact usually it's Maintainer: <the list>, Uploaders: <list of people
who have touched the package>. Cf.
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/policy.html#debian_control_handling
> See also, on the same topic,
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2007/01/msg00007.html
Ah you've found the thread already :-)
Cheers,
gregor
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