Hi, I've added debian-policy@l.d.o to recipients as I believe this either warrants an exception for debian installer packages or maybe this should be redfined for all.
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:02:49PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > With the removal of Christian Perrier from Uploaders in almost all d-i > packages, some of them now have an empty Uploaders field. With the > debian-boot@ list being in the Maintainer field, that can trigger this > lintian error on the source package: > > E: tzsetup source: no-human-maintainers > > My personal policy regarding this (carried over from my X.Org days) is > to ignore it entirely; I see no gain in having specific people being > listed in Uploaders. Feel free to do the same when you're about to > upload a package with pending l10n changes, or with various bug fixes > that were awaiting an upload in git… I've not really made up my mind of what I think about the general case, I do think there are some merrits knowing/documenting human maintainers. I also do think that this doesnt make that much sense for d-i packages. (And I also think that policy should be changed (and not merely ignored) if we find that we disagree with whats written in it.) Shall I file a bug against debian-policy? -- tschau, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C
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