On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:46:01 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 03:08:02PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> > 13:00 <buxy> sorry, you have no ownership on that package 13:00 >> > <aba> I disagree. 13:00 <aba> and that is documented. >> <buxy> you removed me without asking <aba> I didn't remove you. >> <buxy> >> http://cvs.debian.org/ddp/manuals.sgml/developers-reference/debian/control?root=debian-doc&r1=1.23&r2=1.24&diff_format=h > Andi, this looks like a fair point to me. If we're going to treat > this as a question of who has the "right" to be maintainer of the > package, then Raphaël also has some claim that you hijacked the > package first. (You mention that you talked to "people who were doing > lots of QA" -- but did you run this by the debian-qa mailing list so > that there's a public record of the discussion and an opportunity for > comments, and did you try at the time to contact the people that were > listed as Uploaders?) I was not contacted at the time my name was removed from the uploaders list. >> > > As for Raphaël adding himself to the Uploaders: field, I have >> > > no >> > > particular opinion about it. I suggest discussing it within the >> > > team, too, and either reverting the change, or reaching a common >> > > agreement about upload rules (which I would obviously prefer). >> > The "team" currently consists of me. >> That's not what the "Maintainer" field says. And the unix group >> associated is 'cvs_doc'. > Raphaël, surely you're aware that there are many packages which give > mailing lists as the maintainer, without implying that everyone > subscribed to that mailing list is implicitly part of the "team"? > (Moreover, haven't you said that you aren't/weren't subscribed to > -doc, which implies that if the Maintainer field determines who the > team is, you're not part of it anyway?) But, since the team of one was done merely by uploading a package with a changed uploaders field, one can argue the team has been expanded by uploading a package again with a different uploaders field -- unless there is a difference between these two uploads changing the Uploaders fields that I am missing? manoj -- F u cn rd ths u cnt spl wrth a dm! Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
