Re: [nm-admin] Identification step in the current scheme (Re: Fear the new maintainer process)
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:21:37PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> I am rather scared by a statement that effectively assumes that being part
> of Debian is a "privilege" that needs to be protected by people who
> probably want to abuse it.[1] The only privileges you have as a Debian
> maintainer is: Upload packages with a name that already exists to
> the archive (overriding the existing package with that name) and reading
> debian-private.
It just occured to my that effectively, both privileges are not granted to
Debian members only. We have sponsors who upload packages contributed by
non-members. Although those can't upload themselves, it is prettym uch the
same. And we all know that debian-private is sometimes leaked to non-Debian
members (as unfortunate as it is).
So I was wrong: There is no privilege granted by becoming a Debian member,
unless I forgot to consider something.
Thanks,
Marcus
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