Re: Maintainer responsible for or only doing maintenance?

2012-06-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-06-02 at 04:59pm, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Today I find the Maintainer field a joke. > > Both the Maintainer and Uploaders fields are less than useful for a > number of reasons: > > They are tied to the source package, this is bad bec

Re: Maintainer responsible for or only doing maintenance?

2012-06-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Today I find the Maintainer field a joke. Both the Maintainer and Uploaders fields are less than useful for a number of reasons: They are tied to the source package, this is bad because people's commitment to and responsiblity for package