On Sat, 2016-12-03 at 10:27 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Mainly, it was a way to control who got email about the package.
Why was it called Maintainer instead of something more suitable then?
> I was there at the time; this may even have been my fault. Sorry.
No worries, this is all hindsight talking.
> That was madness. We should have just fixed the things that wanted a
> single email address for that field.
>
> We could still do this. "Team maintained" packages would end up with
> Maintainer: Alice, Bob, Cryptographic Tales Team
Instead, I'd kill Maintainer and use DEP-2 to manage who gets email for
a package, especially since that changes independently of packages.
> Oh god please no. I wouldn't ever want to make any such statement.
Technically, you already are, with Maintainer/Uploaders :)
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html# s-maintainer
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