Re: `Every package must have exactly one maintainer'

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:

> One only needs look at the bug list for one of the peioneering
> multi-maintainer packages (namely; dpkg) to think that possibly when
> a goup is responsible for a package, in reality no one is
> responsible for it.

This is IMHO a trite argument as it ignores the complexity of the
multi-maintainer packages and the nature of the bugs.  Also, though
they aren't packages, several things can/will/would benefit from
multiple maintainers (e.g. new-maintainer, pgp-update,
ftp.debian.org).

-- 
James