On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:55:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27/01/08 at 23:00 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:31:02PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:31:32AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > > In the ruby-extras team, we use: > > > > > Maintainer: the team member "mainly" responsible for the package > > > > > Uploaders: the team mailing list, and the other team members who keep > > > > > a > > > > > look on the package. > > > > > > > > > > And I think that makes perfect sense ;) > > > > > > > > It does ? How a mailing list can upload package ? It seems you are using > > > > a functional field for documentation purpose. > > > > > > I'm sorry, Uploaders has no "function" except when combined with > > > DM-Upload-Allowed. One can perfectly upload a package without being in the > > > Uploaders in the default case. > > > > Not true, Uploaders is used by the archive software to determine whether an > > upload is an NMU or not, and whether bugs Closes:ed in the changelog should > > be marked as closed or marked as 'fixed in NMU' in the BTS. That is > > actually its raison d'être. > > ... which only applies to packages uploaded with a Changed-By pointing > at the team. Most teams don't do that. > > The main use of mailing-list-in-Uploaders is to be able to list all > packages (co-)maintained by the team, on DDPO, in dd-list, etc.
Hum... like in [1], where the ML is NOT in Uploaders for webkit... See [2]. You'll need to find another reason for ML in Uploaders ;) Mike 1. http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ? 2. http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/webkit.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
