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Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field



* PJ Weisberg [Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 08:46:22AM -0700]:
> On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

> > I'm not sure if we can make it much more obvious than what it currently
> > says.  There's no mention or hint of permissions anywhere in the
> > description you quote, and it specifically says "co-maintainers."

> I believe the confusion comes from the name of the field.  Implicitly,
> "<verb>ers" seems to exclude people who cannot or do not <verb>.

Exactly. That's why the discussion came up and the policy wasn't
explicit enough, at least for our interpretation of "Uploaders".

thanks && regards,
-mika-

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