Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list
Hi,
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:02:43AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > + If the maintainer of a package no longer has time or desire to
> > > + maintain a package, it will be orphaned according to the
> > > + procedure described in the Debian Developer's Reference
> > > + (see <ref id="related">). The maintainer then
>
> > "It will" makes it sound like that the former maintainer has nothing to
> > do. "It should" would be more appropriate IMO.
>
> But "should" is a magic, normative verb in policy, so I avoided using it
> here even though it's the natural choice... :)
s/it will be orphaned/he shall orphan it/
Better ?
Cheers,
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