Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:46:05PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: >> In general, I like the idea of co-maintainership. However I think >> that there should still be one real person who is the principal >> maintainer, and who has some concrete interest in the package. >> Otherwise we may end up with a bunch of effectively unmaintained >> packages that nooen cares for. > > You are right, this is the real argument against my proposal. But my > point is that such packages will be, at least, packaged! > > I simply rate being available as .deb to be more importante than being a > good(TM) debian package ...
The most important is that the one who wants the package: - does the first work of packaging - his ID must be put in the maintainer field - everyone must ensure that the package will be fixed when needed. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

