Re: lintian NMU check and teams
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 12:54 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'm not sure what the drawback is to adding yourself to Uploaders.
>> Could you elaborate?
> Well, it means that in various places I'll be marked as maintaining the
> package rather than having done a once-off upload to bring the packaging
> up to date with policy/debhelper/etc or fix a GCC FTBFS or something.
> These are similar to NMUs but not NMUs since I'm part of the team.
> Adding myself to Uploaders creates an impression I'll do something on
> the package in the future, which isn't necessarily true. I guess I could
> immediately remove myself from Uploaders in SVN after the upload.
Hm. So it's sort of a team NMU -- you're not planning on taking ongoing
responsibility for the package except as just another member of the team.
Yeah, a team upload is a good way of putting it. You're uploading it as a
member of the maintainer team, not as an individual directly responsible
for the package.
ftpmaster has asked us to warn about packages that don't have any human
listed maintainers, so I know that they (and others) would be unhappy if
everyone who uploaded the package took this approach. But I can see the
need for an NMU-style or QA-style maintenance upload for a team-maintained
package without wanting to take ongoing responsibility for it.
Maybe run this by debian-devel?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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