Re: Who should be listed in Uploaders ?
Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> writes:
> Le Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:01:39PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit :
>> * Maintainer address set to
>> pkg-exppsy-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org and since none of us
>> is DD yet we saw no point to include us in Uploaders. This fact makes
>> lintian unhappy and complaining about changelog-should-mention-nmu,
>> source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number
> I am in the same situation with some debian-med packages, and I ended up
> adding myself in Uploaders. I think that it is important that the users
> have a clue that there are real persons which take care of the packages.
> Also, the definition of the Uploaders field in the policy is broader
> than what its name suggests. In fact, it does not mention uploading at
> all!
Technically, Uploaders is basically anyone who is listed in changelog
entries. If you list yourself as the author of a version in
debian/changelog, you should be in Uploaders.
In practice, I agree with...
> In the end, I think that it is safe to think the Uploaders field as a
> "Co-maintainers" field. This is also how it is presented in
> packages.qa.debian.org...
...this.
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