Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 01:59:37PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> And received >> pushback from maintainers that don't understand what the field is for, >> are confused about having to maintain it in two places (debian/control >> and the ftpmasters override file), and are not especially happy with >> having to take patches fixing it. > > Did you try to report the bug directly to the ftp-masters ? > If we decide that the ftp-masters are maintaining the field and > not the package maintainers that would be the logical thing to > do. I followed what I understood to be the current procedure, which is to file two bugs. The ftp-masters aren't currently responsible for updating debian/control, nor for letting the packagers know that their package is now more important. I thought the sanity-check from the package maintainer could be useful, too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141117222946.gb4...@google.com
