Jonas Smedegaard dijo [Thu, May 31, 2012 at 05:52:47PM +0200]: > > > You avoided my question, it seems: What does "Maintainer:" mean, then? > > > > What does "Uploaders:" field mean? > > You still avoid my question: What does "Maintainer:" mean?
This is getting silly. Please stop the word-definitions game. Jonas, I think we all agree that the Maintainer should Maintain whatever he signed up to. Non-Debian people have the right to maintain packages through a sponsor, and they are encouraged to. And they are encouraged to look for a different sponsor if their current one stops being responsive, and all that. However, we cannot expect them to remain active and interested forever. I can expect you (as a person I've known for many years already) to remain active and look after your packages. But we cannot expect the same from a person not involved in Debian any further than in having maintained a couple of packages for a couple of months. Taking over a package from you should be quite a different thing than taking it over from a person not involved in the project. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120531163116.ga21...@gwolf.org
