Re: Towards consensus of our usage of the Uploaders field
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:51:22PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Notice that Frans decided on this way of using the uploader field, and used it
> as weapon against me in his war against me.
Uh, uh. You are at least 2 years too late:
| $ svn log -r 1293 svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk/packages/debian-installer-utils/debian/control
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| r1293 | waldi | 2002-11-17 19:47:07 +0100 (So, 17 Nov 2002) | 3 lines
|
| - add s390 support (uses fdasd)
| - remove depency to fdisk-udeb
|
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| $ svn cat -r 1293 svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk/packages/debian-installer-utils/debian/control | head -n 7
| Source: debian-installer-utils
| Section: debian-installer
| Priority: standard
| Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
| Uploaders: David Kimdon <dwhedon@debian.org>, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>
| Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.13), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0), libcdebconf-dev, po-debconf (>= 0.5.0)
| Standards-Version: 3.2.1
> I remember perfectly the older
> days of the d-i team, where you could add yourself as uploader, when you where
> actually working on a d-i package.
No. Someone always needed enough trust to not break it. A leaf package needs
rather small amount of trust, but core packages needs much more.
> I am not entirely sure that this is what is most wanted here, this is
> defitively not how the kernel team used to work, when it was most succesfull,
> where those actually doing the work could add themselves to the Uploader
> field, and actually do the upload.
The people had enough trust among the others to do that.
Bastian
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