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Re: Debian Perl package maintenance on pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org?



Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 12.03.2006, 12:16 +0100 schrieb Raphael Hertzog:
> > I've seen that current consensus seems to use another directory for
> > that but I don't see the point of another directory. I think that by
> > "maintainership" Ivo only means that he wants his name in the
> > Maintainer field. He probably doesn't matter if other people help him
> > maintain the package ? Am I right Ivo ?
> >
> > So IMO, he can keep his name in the Maintainer field and still use the
> > same directory in the repository. BTW, I'll probably do this for my
> > perl packages.
>
> The risk is that someone from the team might forget to check if the
> package is team maintained and might -- oh my god -- actually upload a
> fixed version of a packages maintained by someone else.

Let's just say that everyone who wants his package(s) to remain untouched 
should keep them in /people/<username>/.  Any packages in /packages/ 
should be admissible for co-maintenance AKA interference without explicit 
permission.

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