On May 5, 2009, at 15:41, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi, > > Let me start again because I don't think this downstream-upstream > relationship is relevant to define hhis extras QA process. > > Proof: if an application in extras has been demoted because of a > severe > bug in a library it's the maintainer of that app the main > responsible of > finding a solution.
Another problem with this is the fact that a lot of the packages in Maemo have debian developers as their maintainer address. I strongly suspect whoever packaged these packages for maemo did not put their email address in the maintainer field, despite the fact that the packaging policy explicit says they have to. For example, the package "chrpath" has Tollef Fog Heen's debian email address - did he in fact package this for maemo? Or was this just ported without change? So if we email the maintainer of this package, he'll probably say; "What? I never uploaded anything to the maemo repositories?" Now we have a package without a maintainer. A lot of users might be inconvenienced if all of a sudden important libraries like libcairomm get removed because the maemo packager cannot be found. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
