On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:25:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have just added support to debbugs in cvs, and on master, so that the > > maintainer address for a package can be overriden. This allows the real > > maintainer to be someone different than the person or list that gets the > > bugs. > > > > This is useful, when the real maintainer is doing the upload, and dinstall > > compares the uploader to the real maintainer, but an entire list of people > > should actually get the bug reports. > > I've got another request, but I reckon it's a katie one: it would be > really nice if the Maintainer could be a mailing list (eg, > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and that katie would recognise one of a small > list of names and emails for the Changed-By field as being maintainers > for the package. I'm sure there are several packages like this which > would benefit from such a change. If I learn Python one day, I would > happily write a patch for this.
That's why this change is for. You set the Maintainer in debian/control to be the uploader. This way, katie will do the right thing. However, using the above debbugs feature, bug reports can go elsewhere, your above mentioned list.
