Re: Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:31:02PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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.
Not true, Uploaders is used by the archive software to determine whether an
upload is an NMU or not, and whether bugs Closes:ed in the changelog should
be marked as closed or marked as 'fixed in NMU' in the BTS. That is
actually its raison d'être.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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