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regarding debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field
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Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders
reads as follows:
| 5.6.3 Uploaders
|
| List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the
| package, if any. If the package has other maintainers besides the
| one named in the Maintainer field, their names and email addresses
| should be listed here. The format of each entry is the same as that
| of the Maintainer field, and multiple entries must be comma
| separated.
|
| This is normally an optional field, but if the Maintainer control
| field names a group of people and a shared email address, the
| Uploaders field must be present and must contain at least one human
| with their personal email address.
|
| The Uploaders field in debian/control can be folded.
I don't mean to nit-pick but I just had a discussion with some DDs
about who should be really listed in the Uploaders field: a) people
with Upload *permissions* [DMs/DDs] and therefore actually uploading
the package (if not being the maintainer itself) or b) whoever is
co-*maintaining* the package (no matter whether he/she is DM or DD
and has upload permissions or not).
Since it wasn't obvious for all of us involved in the discussion I'd
love to see a clarification in the policy WRT the Uploaders field
and that the field isn't (necessarily) restricted to a list of
people with upload *permissions* or doing the uploads themselves but
that it's fine to list non-DDs/-DMs as well (iff that's true, at
least that's what was the outcome of the discussion :)).
regards,
-mika-
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control: tag -1 +wontfix
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:48:11PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Also, anyone can add themself to the Uploaders before uploading a
> package.
It's worth noting in this bug report that this is not the current social
convention.
Except in cases of packages with no active maintainers, you need the
permission of an existing co-maintainer to add yourself to the
Uploaders: field (otherwise, you bypass all of our conventions on the
kind of changes that are appropriate in NMUs).
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:51:49AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Please let me know if you are interested by a patch; otherwise I
> propose to close this bug.
None of those who raised this issue have indicated that they are
interested in a patch, so almost six years on, I'm closing the bug.
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Sean Whitton
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