Re: Christian Schwarz

1998-02-05 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) wrote on 03.02.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Christian Schwarz: > > Well, first of all current policy says ``Every package must have > > exactly one maintainer at a time.'' (see section 2.3.2 The maintainer > > of a package). So

Re: Christian Schwarz

1998-02-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > Christian Schwarz: > > Well, first of all current policy says ``Every package must have > > exactly one maintainer at a time.'' (see section 2.3.2 The maintainer > > of a package). So this is the case. Whether it `shou

Re: Christian Schwarz

1998-02-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
> Furthermore, commas are no good because they're already a separator > for separate addresses in a single field. (Admittedly we already > allow a syntax like John F. Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is not > permitted by RFC822.) Why? 'John F. Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' s

Re: Christian Schwarz

1998-02-04 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> Furthermore, commas are no good because they're already a separator > for separate addresses in a single field. (Admittedly we already > allow a syntax like John F. Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is not > permitted by RFC822.) Why? 'John F. Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' seems to be a valid

Re: Christian Schwarz

1998-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Christian Schwarz: > Well, first of all current policy says ``Every package must have > exactly one maintainer at a time.'' (see section 2.3.2 The maintainer > of a package). So this is the case. Whether it `should' be the case > needs to be discussed. Well, it never us

Re: Christian Schwarz

1998-02-03 Thread Christian Schwarz
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" where the "Description" uniquely defines a set of maintainers, and may be listed on several packages which are all maintained by the same developers. The email address has to be some mail alias; all mails sent to that address have to be forwarded to all m

Christian Schwarz

1998-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Christian proposes: ... > [The last sentence is completely new: Currently, a few people don't have a > working forward file on master or don't check their mail box there.] > > Usually, a package has exactly _one_ maintainer. > > Only in rare situations, a package will be allowed to have several >