Re: PW#5-12: New upload procedure

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Christian Schwarz wrotee, while discussing the
> proposed (and agreed upon) changes to dpkg-genchanges and dinstall to
> make the closing of bugs etc. run more smoothly:
> 
> > Another suggestion was to change the "Maintainer:" field to "Developer:",
> > "Uploader:" or whatever, since this field does not list the actual
> > maintainer taken from the control file, but the person listed in the
> > changelog entry (who might be someone else than the "Maintainer" of the
> > package, e.g., for NMU's). Opinions?
> 
> There did not appear to be any replies at the time.  I intend to make
> the required changes to the relevant scripts over the next few days,
> so if we could reach a decision on this point, it would be great.

I like the term "Uploader", for the person who did the upload.

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