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Re: packages with invalid maintainer fields



Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:36:44PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> Debian maintainers are required to provide a valid email address in
>> the maintainer field for package uploads.  Some maintainers have
>> adopted the policy of various arbitrary filtering rules of their own
>> invention, under which they will not receive some proper email from
>> perfectly legitimate senders communicating about their packages.
>> 
>> I believe such packages should be treated exactly as if the developer
>> in question has simply put no email address at all in the package.
>
> Which is what, exactly, out of curiousity?

Huh?  If there is no email address in the package, then it is
orphaned.

Thomas



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