Re: Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:31:32AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > In the ruby-extras team, we use:
> > Maintainer: the team member "mainly" responsible for the package
> > Uploaders: the team mailing list, and the other team members who keep a
> > look on the package.
> >
> > And I think that makes perfect sense ;)
>
> It does ? How a mailing list can upload package ? It seems you are using
> a functional field for documentation purpose.
I'm sorry, Uploaders has no "function" except when combined with
DM-Upload-Allowed. One can perfectly upload a package without being in the
Uploaders in the default case.
It makes sense to put a common identity either in Maintainer: or in
Uploaders: so that one can check the state of all packages of this entity
in the corresponding DDPO (qa.debian.org/developer.php) page.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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