On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 14:28:54 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > I noticed that we have a 'should' in the Debian Perl Group Policy > about the Maintainer field in debian/control. I think we always > required that packages maintained in the pkg-perl group repositories > have that fields actually set to > pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org . <comment mode="gr(e|a)ybeard> I vaguely remember that in the olden days there were/was one or more people who preferred to be in Maintainer for packages they brought into the group. Maybe this "should" comes from thess pre-historic times. </comment> > Any objection if I commit the attached patch to the policy (changing > the should to a must requirement). I think it (1) makes sense and (2) mostly reflects reality, so I'm in favour of writing it down. Thanks for catching this detail! (From a languange POV I'm not sure if "packages must list" or just "packages list" is better; I'm fine with whatever some native speaker declares as more idiomatic.) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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