Re: Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 03:10:40PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:58:10PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > > 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.
>
> > Wrong. "fixed in NMU" is no more used by dak. It's all version-closed
> > nowadays.
>
> However, it has been discussed that bugs that are fixed in NMU should
> continue to be tagged 'fixed' so that they can be found again by the
> maintainer and treated specially where archiving is concerned...
The same could be done with version numbers looking like NMU numbers,
couldn't it ?
Mike
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