On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:01:46 -0700 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 05:53:28PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> >That requires LP to know who is or isn't a DD. Currently it has no such >> >knowledge, and I think it would require a fair amount of discussion to >> >decide how best to get such information, with a none-too-elegant outcome >> >(special-casing Debian out of all the projects in the world that Launchpad >> >seeks to interface with), which is why I didn't suggest this. > >> Since Debian is (mostly) upstream for Ubuntu and we already implicitly trust code uploaded by >> DDs and DMs, Debian is a special case. > >Practically speaking, though, this doesn't require LP to know *who* has >upload rights in Debian; it only requires trusting the Debian archive key >used to sign the repo that's being pulled from.
Yes, but that's an implementation detail. Debian is a special case, so special casing is reasonable. How to accomplsh that special casing is up to them. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]