On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 21:20:27 +0200, Alex Muntada wrote: > On the other side, I've found several issues that I'd like to > discuss with this list before proceeding to make mass changes > to 291 packages: Thanks for working on this task! > * I'm using cme to format debian/control before making any > change (also performed by cme). This formatting changes the > order of some headers (e.g. Testsuite, Vcs-*). I consider > these format changes acceptable as I separate them with a > different commit form the actual removing of mail addresses > from Uploaders. > * However, there are several packages that seem to use the > wrap-and-sort formatting, thus running cme format on them > makes a lot of changes that probably won't make happy their > respective maintainers. I'm not sure whether I should skip > these and make the changes in some other way. For my last mass-commit, I just used cme and I don't remember comments about the reformatting afterwards. > * Some packages end up with no Uploaders field after removing > the former team members. I guess this is alright as long as > there's no new upload but there's a risk that we forget to > add one. Yup, that happened as well last year; as lintian shouts quite loudly in this case, I guess it will continue to be unproblematic. > Any thoughts and tips will be appreciated, specially from those > people that don't want me to mess up with their formatting of > debian/control. Hm, I'm the wrong target group here :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Soluna Samay: See You In June
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