[Please, Cc: to me, I am not currently subscribed to debian-devel.] * Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-24 02:13]:
> Stephen Gran wrote: > > FWIW, Rafael, at first blush I have to say I agree with you. A > > maintainer address in Debian is just a way to get in touch with someone > > when something goes wrong with the package. If the mailing list is a > > good way to get in touch with people when those packages break, then it > > seems like a reasonable maintainer address. > > AFAIU the changelog entry is supposed to bear the name of the uploader, > and thus can't be a mailing list. Policy 4.4 seems to support this: > > "The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should > be the details of the person uploading this version. They are not > necessarily those of the usual package maintainer." > > > Bastian, what's the rationale for the filings you've been doing? Do you > > really think a mailing list address, (where any and all correspondence > > about the packages is presumably archived and possibly even publicly > > accessible), is somehow worse than mailing a single person (who > > hopefully archives their package mail, but maybe not, and can almost be > > guaranteed not to have publicly browseable archives)? What are you > > hoping to do here? > > It provides a convenient way to find the person who did the final > touches before an upload. The uses you are arguing are covered by > the Maintainer: field. I think that are two distinct concepts here. The first is the maintainer of the package, which should receive any e-mail messages related to the package. This name appears in the debian/changelog entry as well as in the Maintainer field. All correspondence must be directed to this entity (either a person or a mailing list). The second concept is the real, physical person who did a specific upload. This appears in the Changed-By field and is used to know who is responsible for that upload. If this person is in the Uploaders field of debian/control, then debian-installer will not consider the upload as an NMU. Furthermore, this information is in the changes file and also stored in the debian-devel-changes mailing list archive. -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
