Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list
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- Subject: Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:55:17 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87hbizium2.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
- Reply-to: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 459868@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <87k4ohx65b.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of "Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:52:32 -0700")
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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> I like this general approach. Thank you! I played with a bit and came
> up with the following. This retains a Policy should only for the
> correct setting of the Maintainer field for an orphaned package and
> remains silent on when packages are orphaned.
This change has now been merged for the next release, since I'm pretty
sure that Steve will be okay with it, although I'm happy to iterate some
more if there are any further problems.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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