On 11274 March 1977, Ian Jackson wrote: >> ---+++--- >> If the Maintainer address points to a mailing list then that list must >> be configured to accept mail from those role accounts in Debian used to >> send automated mails regarding the package. This includes mail from the >> BTS, all mails from the archive software used on ftp-master as well as >> other role accounts that are commonly agreed on to send automated mails >> to the maintainers. a sample implementation of such a whitelist for >> mailman is running on alioth.debian.org. >> ---+++--- > Surely this should be obvious and shouldn't need putting in policy ? > (And it should be true of non-mailinglist Maintainer addresses too!) If it would be obvious I wouldnt ask to add it to policy. For most people it just isnt. >> +++---+++ >> If the Maintainer: field points to a mailing list then the Uploader: >> field has to contain at least one human. >> ---+++--- > This is a good requirement, I think. (Actually, I would have expected > Uploader to contain only humans ...) True, I expect Uploaders to only contain humans, nothing else makes any sense. This is for people who try uploading packages with Maintainer set to "the foo group of bar <bar@foo.com>" and no other information about who really maintains it... -- bye Joerg Das kannst du vielleicht mir erzaehlen, aber nicht jemanden, der Ahnung hat.
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