Bug#761697: DDPO: showing package adopted by third-party as being mine
Hi Daniel,
Ok, you are right. I adopted pdfcrack in January and the package is
showed in old maintainer's DDPO[1].
I need to know if is right or not then I will can close the bug.
Cheers,
Eriberto
[1] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=nacho%40debian.org
2014-09-16 13:18 GMT-03:00 Daniel Lintott <daniel@serverb.co.uk>:
>
> On 15/09/14 21:41, Daniel Lintott wrote:
>> Ah... Now I see... it's being picked up as being co-maintained. At a
>> guess this is caused by the change of maintainer causing two email
>> address in one of the DDPO databases.
>
> Okay... I think I've unravelled what is happening here.
>
> Because you *used* to upload the package (which is still in stable) DDPO
> picks you up as an uploader (highlighted in blue)
>
> Another example of this can be seen at [1] for the gns3 and dynamips
> packages which I maintain now.
>
> So the question here is whether a prior maintainer should still see the
> package listed in their DDPO, whilst there name is present on the a
> version of the package that exists in Debian (e.g. in stable)?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
>
> [1] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=erik@debian.org
>
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