Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans
- To: Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>, Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, 798476@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans
- From: Clint Adams <clint@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 23:09:06 +0000
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 06:25:46PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote:
> What I don't understand in the point of view of the "keep Uploaders"
> proponents: What does this information, whether correct or not,
> actually give others? Are they going to email or phone these persons
> privately when emails to the BTS or the maintainer/team list are
> ignored? And what happens if they ignore these communications as
> well?
I agree. This information is useless, and even if it's not, the source
package is entirely the wrong place for it. Let's get rid of the
Uploaders field entirely.
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