On Oct 24, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 16:11 -0400, root wrote:
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| >
| >> Perhaps the DMUA field adds some security concern. However
currently,
| >> neither Samuel nor I am a DM. In later versions, I'll just
drop DMUA
| >> field and ask my sponsor, Steffen, to use the new DM permission
| >> interface (after I become a DM).
[...]
| DMUA removed now.[2]
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Wait a minute, here: (1) Guo seems to be a DM now
He wasn't at the time I queried it, as his own mail above confirms.
I know, I just thought it might be relevant.
(2) the changelog
says his *sponsor* added the DMUA field based working with him
before,
and (3) the packages have the field now, so is it really worth
removing?
(It's quite true that a control field is not a good way to do this,
but
that doesn't mean that it's completely unusable or useless!)
Actually, it *is* useless, or will be very soon - specifically in
exactly a month. See
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00008.html
As of November 24th, its presence will serve no purpose.
Oh, I see: the replacement system is already working. I missed that
when I tried googling this, thanks!
I guess Steffan somehow missed the memo? (*hint hint*)
I propose that Guo put the DMUA back, then upload the revised
versions
of gcc-4.6-doc and gcc-4.7-doc *himself* rather than waiting for a
sponsor to do it.
p.s. Note that, technically, Guo didn't set me as Maintainer: I did;
this should have been fairly obvious from the changelogs. (This was
back before I essentially abandoned the project, partly in despair of
getting gcc-doc-defaults to match gcc-defaults and partly for lack of
feedback from potential sponsors.)
It wasn't at all obvious from the .changes file which was uploaded,
i.e.
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gcc-4.6-doc/news/20121003T190008Z.html
True. I guess that's why Jakub Wilk made me squash my changelogs when
he mentored me for my tack package: so everything would show up in
the .changes file he uploaded.
p.s. If it wasn't obvious, the message you are replying to was from
me, Samuel Bronson; I had forgotten that that instance of Emacs was
running as root...
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