This one time, at band camp, Bastian Blank said: > Package: vdr > Version: 1.3.37-1 > Severity: serious > > vdr lists a mailing list as uploader in the changelog. The policy > specifies: > > | 4.4 Debian changelog: debian/changelog > [...] > | The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should be > | the details of the person uploading this version. They are not > | necessarily those of the usual package maintainer. The information here > | will be copied to the Changed-By field in the .changes file (see > | Changed-By, Section 5.6.4), and then later used to send an > | acknowledgement when the upload has been installed. > > and > > | 5.6.4 Changed-By > | > | The name and email address of the person who changed the said package. > | Usually the name of the maintainer. All the rules for the Maintainer > | field apply here, too. > > Bastian
And I thought the last time this was discussed on -devel, we had no clear consensus this was a sufficiently heinous act that the package should not be part of the next stable release. Suboptimal? probably. RC? I thought the consensus was no. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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