On Sat, 2016-12-03 at 10:27 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Mainly, it was a way to control who got email about the package.
Why was it called Maintainer instead of something more suitable then? > I was there at the time; this may even have been my fault. Sorry. No worries, this is all hindsight talking. > That was madness. We should have just fixed the things that wanted a > single email address for that field. > > We could still do this. "Team maintained" packages would end up with > Maintainer: Alice, Bob, Cryptographic Tales Team Instead, I'd kill Maintainer and use DEP-2 to manage who gets email for a package, especially since that changes independently of packages. > Oh god please no. I wouldn't ever want to make any such statement. Technically, you already are, with Maintainer/Uploaders :) https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-maintainer -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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