On 06/12/2012 12:24 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: >>> - It allows DMs to grant permissions to other DMs. >> >> It is far from clear that forbidding this is the right thing to do. > > As far as I know, we did this intentionally. When a DM is the maintainer > of a package, they should be able to move it to team maintenance without > needing to find some DD who cares about the package, who may not exist. > > I've never heard of this being abused. >
Me neither. I've even seen various cases where one of the uploaders of a package with various uploaders (from a team...) got DM upload permissions and the other team members became DMs later - obviously they got the same permissions then as soon as they were in the Keyring. Which bad things happened that we have to change the current process? -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd73087.40...@bzed.de