Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:29:46 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > - It applies to all DMs listed as Maintainer/Uploaders. It is not
> > possible to grant upload permission to only a specific DM.
> Isn't that the point of listing a DM in the field? Why would you want to
> list someone as a Maintainer and not allow them to upload a package?
In a packaging team, Uploaders: can contain several people working on
a package; with DMUA:yes all of them who are DMs can upload it even
if some became DMs for totally unrelated packages originally.
More elaborate:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2007/11/msg00075.html
As you said in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2007/11/msg00079.html
| It's unfortunate that the Uploaders field is overloaded to mean so
| many different things than "can upload this package". That's the root
| of the confusingness.
:)
Cheers,
gregor
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