Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > Hi Charles, > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:40:47PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Are there other persons interested? Shall I go ahead and submit a patch to >> Lintian and the Developers Reference (plus perhaps the Policy to include a >> footnote containing the special changelog lines for NMU, QA, security and >> team >> uploads)? > > Fine for me. I understand there is some use of this proposal in teams > and I don't see big reasons against it (those being said in the last > thread about this). > > There is just one thing that bothers me: this new feature would invite > teams to actually put noone in the uploaders list. The team would be > maintainer and no real person would be listed in the package. And I > don't like this possible outcome. From a QA (and MIA) perspective this > is not a good idea. So if you're going to write patches as you said, > please consider adding at least a "should" to policy about setting a > real person as uploader when the maintainer is a team (i.e. mailing > list). > > Hauke
Hi lintian already warns if a package has no human uploaders and a list as maintainer (the exception being the QA list) [1], so I believe this has already been taken care of. ~Niels [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/no-human-maintainers.html
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