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Re: Alioth list for packagaing mails



> as HE pointed out, if we indeed enter debian-perl@lists.debian.org in
> the Maintainer field for our packages, and we have a lot of packages,
> then debian-perl might get a little too flooded by all kinds of
> package-related mails. The gnome team has
> pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alitoh.debian.org, we could do the same
> thing. Any comments?

Very wise proposal. I'm already flooded by my own BTS related mails.

> In my previous mail, I said the uploader should put himself into the
> changelog. This is actually not needed, he should rather use
> dpkg-buildpakge -k<his keyid> to build the package, and the person in
> the changelog should be listed in "Uploaders:" (otherwise it would be a
> NMU).
>
> We also have to think about how we treat the debian revisions. When HE
> changed the package a bit, he added a new entry to debian/changelog,
> thus bumping the debian revision to -2 and tagged it
> debian_version_0_71-2. I'd rather add lines to the current
> debian/changelog  entry, retag the sources (cvs tag -F
> debian_version_0_71-1), and only bump the debian revision if we have
> released a version.

Yes, I think a changelog like the glibc's would be more appropriate.

Bye the way, thanks for the explanation on how to sign and retag
appropriatly.

Cheers

Luk

PS: I didn't have the time yet to look at the packages.



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