On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:52:54AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > In Debian we have several teams working on maintaining large numbers > of packages (pkg-games, pkg-perl, pkg-gnome for example). I > proposed[1] to silence the lintian NMU warnings in the case of "team > uploads"; where the person doing the upload is a member of the team > in Maintainers but is not present in Uploaders. Does anyone think > this concept of "team uploads" has merit?
It is a useful concept, but I would like to consider them as "special case NMUs" rather than "special case MUs". - NMU version number - first changelog line contains "TU" / "team upload" / "team NMU" / ... - no need to put patch in bug - no need for NMU delay - no need to upload to delayed queue My reasoning is that a package that has had only "team uploads" for three years is a package where effectively no human is taking charge for maintaining it, just as a package that has had only NMU uploads in three years; I'd like QA / potential adopters to see that in the sequence of version numbers as they do now. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org