Bug#51879: PROPOSAL: package may be maintained by a group

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>  Joey> -     Every package must have exactly one maintainer at a time.  This person
>  Joey> -     is responsible that the license of the package's software complies
>  Joey> +     Every package must have exactly one maintainer at a time.  The
>  Joey> +     maintainer may be a mailing list. The maintainer is responsible
>  Joey> +     for ensuring that the license of the package's software complies
>  Joey>       with the policy of the distribution this package is included in.
>  
>              Every package must have exactly one valid email
>              address. This email address may point to an individual
>              maintainer, or it may be a mailing list. In either case
>              the entity pointed to (the individual or the mailing
>              list) is responsible for ensuring that the license of the
>              package's software complies with the policy of the
>              distribution this package is included in.

Hm, it sounds better, but perhaps "one valid `maintainer' email address"
would be clearer, since it alludes to the field?

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