On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > But I'm *not* the maintainer; I'm one of a group of maintainers. If
> > we do this, then every time one of us uploads, we need to change the
> > maintainer name in the control file.
>
> You needed to do that anyway. The problem you have is that dinstall
> has no way to figre out if you are one of the official maintainers.
No; at present, we only have to enter the correct entry in the
changelog, keeping "Debian policy list <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>"
in the control file Maintainer field. Then all of our uploads are
considered NMUs and we have to close the bugs manually thereafter (how
lazy we have become!).
What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although
I'm not proposing a particular format):
[...]
debian-policy: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
debian-policy: Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
(or perhaps one file per special package containing the names one per
line would be easier), then katie would do something like the
following test:
if ($source_upload) then
if ($maintainer == $uploader or
"$package: $uploader" is line in special maintainers file)
then
<<maintainer upload>>
else
<<NMU>>
fi
else
<<NMU>>
fi
Julian
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