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Bug#459868: marked as done (Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer)

Your message dated Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:02:15 +0000
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and subject line Bug#459868: fixed in debian-policy 3.9.2.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #459868,
regarding Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal

Hi

I think policy should include some words on the usage of Mailinglists as
a Maintainer: address. The current "3.3 The maintainer of a package"
reads

---++++---
Every package must have a Debian maintainer (the maintainer may be one
person or a group of people reachable from a common email address, such
as a mailing list). The maintainer is responsible for ensuring that the
package is placed in the appropriate distributions.

The maintainer must be specified in the Maintainer control field with
their correct name and a working email address. If one person maintains
several packages, they should try to avoid having different forms of
their name and email address in the Maintainer fields of those
packages.

The format of the Maintainer control field is described in Maintainer,
Section 5.6.2.

If the maintainer of a package quits from the Debian project, "Debian QA
Group" packages@qa.debian.org takes over the maintainer-ship of the
package until someone else volunteers for that task. These packages are
called orphaned packages.[5]
---+++---

I propose to add, someone please fix up en_GANNEFF:

---+++---
If the Maintainer address points to a mailing list then that list must
be configured to accept mail from those role accounts in Debian used to
send automated mails regarding the package. This includes mail from the
BTS, all mails from the archive software used on ftp-master as well as
other role accounts that are commonly agreed on to send automated mails
to the maintainers. a sample implementation of such a whitelist for
mailman is running on alioth.debian.org.
---+++---


Additionally I would like:

+++---+++
If the Maintainer: field points to a mailing list then the Uploader:
field has to contain at least one human.
---+++---


Intention of the first paragraph is clear, and for about 95% of the
lists used also already true, thanks to sgran implementing it for
alioths mailman, so implementing it now doesnt make all packages
RC buggy.   Im not sure we should point directly to alioth from
within the paragraph, might be better as a footnote. We could also
mention that the whitelist definition on alioth is a good location to
look for the address regex to whitelist and that one should recheck
every X months...


The second paragraph is simple making sure there is at least one human
listed who is responsible.

-- 
bye Joerg
<liw> I'm a blabbermouth

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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 3.9.2.0

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

debian-policy_3.9.2.0.dsc
  to main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.9.2.0.dsc
debian-policy_3.9.2.0.tar.gz
  to main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.9.2.0.tar.gz
debian-policy_3.9.2.0_all.deb
  to main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.9.2.0_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 459868@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.9.2.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description: 
 debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
Closes: 459868 488214 501930 504880 536790 581011 588014 590696 591857 593909 594274 594542 594656 594658 597074 599944 606869 609160 619186
Changes: 
 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
     Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
     Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
     Closes: #459868, #581011
   * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
     Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
     Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
     Closes: #594658
   * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
     Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
     Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Closes: #588014
   * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
     Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
     Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
     Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
     Closes: #619186
   * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
     Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
     Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
     Closes: #504880
   * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
     Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
     Closes: #501930, #593909
   * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
     Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
     Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
     Closes: #488214
   * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
     architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
     machine.  (Closes: #591857)
   * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
     description.  Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer.  (Closes: #590696)
   * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
     debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules.  List
     the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
     paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
     as either required or optional.  (Closes: #536790)
   * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
     to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
     multiarch triplet directories.  Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
     (Closes: #597074)
   * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
     the purpose of that archive area.  Based on a proposal by CJ
     Fearnley.  (Closes: #594542)
   * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
     Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures.  Patch
     from Guillem Jover.  (Closes: #594656)
   * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
   * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
   * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
   * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
     -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
     packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
     than the version in oldstable.
   * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
     from org source from the revision control repository.  Build and clean
     files from org source unconditionally.  Add Process.{txt,html} to the
     list of files generated from org source.  (Closes: #594274)
   * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
     Thanks, David Prévot.  (Closes: #606869)
   * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
     7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined.  Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
     Nieder.  (Closes: #599944)
   * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
     This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
     3.9.3.0 release.  Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
     Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
     package.  (Closes: #609160)
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