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Re: Developers vs Uploaders



On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:37:38AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > If the "Debian maintainer" uploads a package changing the
> > Maintainer/Uploaders field to his own name, what happens ?
> 
> Nothing in particular. The Maintainer/Uploaders field of the existing
> source package in the target suite are what's used. So if you're already
> in the Uploaders field you could add someone else to the Uploaders field
> as well, but that's about it.

Good. It's ok if it uses the field which are in the archive already as
reference.

> Any DD can NMU the package to remove your name from the
> Maintainer/Uploaders field of course, and if you start doing daft things
> the idea is you'll get removed from the keyring pretty quickly.

Sure.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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