Re: Maintainer and uploaders fields of debian-med packages
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
I am with a new package ready to be uploaded (sibsim4 -
Great.
If I only include me and "Debian-Med Packaging Team
<debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>", then I think that it
will be wrong (because the only one maintaining it will be me, and not
the team). With just me and this list, if anyone from debian-med
uploads a new revision of this package it will be considered as NMU
(that is wrong).
In general: If you are the only maintainer you are fre to leave out
the Uploaders field. Keeping debian-med-packaging as Uploaders is
a nice thing to do because it keeps interested people informed about
the Upload itself (and if I'm not completely wrong about bugs the
package might gather).
In case somebody else than you uploads the package (for whatever reasons)
there are two options:
1. It is a NMU and the Uploader makrs the package apropriately.
2. The Uploader adds himself to the Uploaders field and declares
this way (after asking you for agreement) that he really cares
at a person with a key for this package.
What I am thinking is to put Debian-Med Packaging Team as the
maintainer and me + team as uploaders. But who exactly is the team?
People from http://alioth.debian.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=30063?
I don't think that each member of the Alioth team is necessarily a
reader of the list. I rather think that anybody who is subscribed to
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-packaging
is a member of the debian-med-packaging team.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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