retitle 203145 [PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy
thanks
On 28 Jul 2003 10:09:09 +1000 Andrew Pollock <me@andrew.net.au> wrote
> I had to do a bit of Googling to find any reference on the Uploaders:
> field in debian/control. I would have thought that this would turn up
> in section 5.6 of policy, given that
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200109/msg00130.html
> is nearly 2 years old now.
[...]
How about this patch against current CVS:
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--- /tmp/policy.sgml.orig Tue Oct 14 12:14:32 2003
+++ policy.sgml Tue Oct 14 12:24:07 2003
@@ -2203,6 +2203,7 @@
<list compact="compact">
<item><qref id="f-Source"><tt>Source</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
<item><qref id="f-Maintainer"><tt>Maintainer</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
+ <item><qref id="f-Uploaders"><tt>Uploaders</tt></qref></item>
<item><qref id="f-Section"><tt>Section</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
<item><qref id="f-Priority"><tt>Priority</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
<item><qref id="sourcebinarydeps"><tt>Build-Depends</tt> et al</qref></item>
@@ -2289,6 +2290,7 @@
<item><qref id="f-Source"><tt>Source</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
<item><qref id="f-Version"><tt>Version</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
<item><qref id="f-Maintainer"><tt>Maintainer</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
+ <item><qref id="f-Uploaders"><tt>Uploaders</tt></qref></item>
<item><qref id="f-Binary"><tt>Binary</tt></qref></item>
<item><qref id="f-Architecture"><tt>Architecture</tt></qref></item>
<item><qref id="sourcebinarydeps"><tt>Build-Depends</tt> et al</qref></item>
@@ -2391,6 +2393,17 @@
putting the name in round brackets and moving it to the
end, and bringing the email address forward).
</p>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="f-Uploaders">
+ <heading><tt>Uploaders</tt></heading>
+
+ <p>
+ List of co-maintaintainers and their email addresses. If the
+ package has other maintainers beside the one named in the
+ <qref id="f-Maintainer">Maintainer field</qref> list them here
+ in the same format and separate the entries by commas.
+ </p>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="f-Changed-By">
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The English might need some polishing, but IMHO the wish of the
bug-submitter is justified.
cu andreas
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