[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: "Team uploads"



Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

>>> so in the end, can we use the “ * QA upload.” special first line for
>>> non-uploader uploads without breaking the QA infrastructure?

>> No, that is reserved for orphaned packages and triggers other checks to
>> ensure the maintainer is set appropriately.

>> I think the conversation hasn't reached a conclusion yet about the
>> right way to do this, but I doubt it would be reusing the key phrase
>> for orphaned package uploads.

> The simplest solution would be to use " * Team upload" as a new key
> phrase to mark such packages.

Can anyone think of any drawbacks to that?  (We really need a document
somewhere listing all these key phrases -- I wonder if that would be
appropriate for Policy given how much software now cares.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


Reply to: