Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

* Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> [2012-06-10 20:52:30 CEST]:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:57:49PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > (Please send followup messages to -project.)
> > 
> > The ftp team wants to change how allowing Debian Maintainers to upload
> > packages works.  The current approach with the DM-Upload-Allowed field
> > has a few issues we would like to address:
> 
> Have any of these issues been a problem practically, yet? Or are they
> just potential problems for the future?

 There were a package where DMUA was added which I received for
sponsoring, without any hint on it being added, neither in the sponsor
request nor in the changelog.  And I don't think it's uncommon to have
it sneaked in like that.

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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