Re: maintainer field
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > So I myself chose to be among Uploaders and set Maintainer to DPMT,
> > > because this more enforces team work and I like team work.
>
> > I had a discussion on #debian-devel about this, and "they" thought it
> > was pretty stupid to have DPMT as uploader, as it would make every
> > package NMU.
>
> No, what was said was that it was meaningless to list a mailing list in the
> Uploaders field because a mailing list can never do an upload and therefore
> it misses the /point/ of the Uploaders field.
The only (good) reason of listing the mailing list in the Uploaders field is to
have the package in the group's QA page:
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org
Cheers,
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