Package: debian-policy Severity: normal
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders reads as follows: | 5.6.3 Uploaders | | List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the | package, if any. If the package has other maintainers besides the | one named in the Maintainer field, their names and email addresses | should be listed here. The format of each entry is the same as that | of the Maintainer field, and multiple entries must be comma | separated. | | This is normally an optional field, but if the Maintainer control | field names a group of people and a shared email address, the | Uploaders field must be present and must contain at least one human | with their personal email address. | | The Uploaders field in debian/control can be folded. I don't mean to nit-pick but I just had a discussion with some DDs about who should be really listed in the Uploaders field: a) people with Upload *permissions* [DMs/DDs] and therefore actually uploading the package (if not being the maintainer itself) or b) whoever is co-*maintaining* the package (no matter whether he/she is DM or DD and has upload permissions or not). Since it wasn't obvious for all of us involved in the discussion I'd love to see a clarification in the policy WRT the Uploaders field and that the field isn't (necessarily) restricted to a list of people with upload *permissions* or doing the uploads themselves but that it's fine to list non-DDs/-DMs as well (iff that's true, at least that's what was the outcome of the discussion :)). regards, -mika- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2011-06-14t16-36...@devnull.michael-prokop.at
