On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 03:16:00PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > This has been discussed several times now and I don't think there is a > > need to raise the discussion again. Current policy says that it is up > > to each maintainer which email address he/she prefers as "Maintainer:" > > address. However, this address has to be unique for all packages of > > that maintainer to simplify our tools. Unfortunately, not all > > maintainers comply with this policy by now--that's one of the reasons > > why we set up this DB. > > There are sometimes good reasons for the same human being to use > different addresses in the Maintainer fields of different packages. > For example, the Maintainer field for dpkg refers to a mail alias on > chiark that goes both to me and to Klee Dienes. > > Some people might want to be able to prefilter their mail into folders > for different packages, and so encode the package into the email > address.
Great example, because:
Debian Policy Manual
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Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
revised: David A. Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
version 2.3.0.1, 21 October 1997
[..]
2.3.2. The maintainer of a package
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Every package must have exactly one maintainer at a time. This person
is responsible that the license of the package's software complies
with the policy of the distribution this package is included in.
The maintainer must be specified in the `Maintainer' control field
with the correct name and a working email address for the Debian
maintainer of the package. If one person maintains several packages
he/she should try to avoid having different forms of their name and
email address in different `Maintainer' fields.
If the maintainer of a package quits from the Debian project the
Debian QA Group takes over the maintainership of the package until
someone else volunteers for that task. These packages are called
*orphaned packages*.
I was about requesting a change lately but didn't find the right
example. Now here it is. I believe that developers have agreed that
it makes sense to maintain packages as a group. Boot-floppies is another
package that seems to be maintaines by a group.
Therefore I'm requesting a policy change. Leave out the first paragraph
and add a sentence about a group of maintainer in the succsessor
Regards
Joey
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