Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-11-29 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 630578 informative discussion thanks Le Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:48:11PM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit : For the purpose of policy, the Uploader (with big square quote) is the person whose name appears in the changelog line between -- and the

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders reads as follows: | 5.6.3 Uploaders | | List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the | package, if any. If the package has other maintainers besides the | one

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hi, On 15/06/11 13:33, Michael Prokop wrote: I don't mean to nit-pick but I just had a discussion with some DDs about who should be really listed in the Uploaders field: a) people with Upload *permissions* [DMs/DDs] and therefore actually uploading the package (if not being the maintainer

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi, I will second Emilio's response here... In the Debian Perl Group, I have been marked Uploader of many of our packages (though I'm not yet a DD), since otherwise Lintian complains about it (with the exception of the more recently introduced new Team Upload syntax). I would suggest that anyone

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Prokop m...@debian.org writes: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders reads as follows: | 5.6.3 Uploaders | | List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the | package, if any. If the package has other maintainers besides the |

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Russ Allbery [Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 07:30:37AM -0700]: Michael Prokop m...@debian.org writes: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders reads as follows: | 5.6.3 Uploaders | | List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the | package,

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:33:03PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: Package: debian-policy Severity: normal | 5.6.3 Uploaders | | List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the | package, if any. If the package has other maintainers besides the | one named in the Maintainer

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Bill Allombert [Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 02:48:11PM +0200]: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:33:03PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: | 5.6.3 Uploaders [...] I don't mean to nit-pick but I just had a discussion with some DDs about who should be really listed in the Uploaders field: a) people with

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread PJ Weisberg
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I'm not sure if we can make it much more obvious than what it currently says.  There's no mention or hint of permissions anywhere in the description you quote, and it specifically says co-maintainers. I believe the confusion

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* PJ Weisberg [Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 08:46:22AM -0700]: On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I'm not sure if we can make it much more obvious than what it currently says.  There's no mention or hint of permissions anywhere in the description you quote, and it