On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:26:46AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > > 5) The intial policy for the use of the Debian Maintainer keyring with the > > Debian archive will be to accept uploads signed by a key in that keyring > > provided: > > * none of the packages are being taken over from other source > > packages > > * the most recent version of the package uploaded to unstable > > or experimental lists the uploader in the Maintainer: or > > Uploaders: > > fields (ie, cannot NMU or hijack packages) > > * the usual checks applied to uploads from Debian developers pass > I'm missing any mention about taking over arbitrary packages since it
An arbitrary package's most recent upload will not have the person trying to take it over listed in the Maintainer: or Uploaders: field. > I still believe that this proposal is flawed and we should address the > real issue it secretly tries to solve. I think the DM level of access is useful even if NM were to be working perfectly. Your insinuation that I've got a secret agenda for this is offensive and unwarranted. Cheers, aj
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