tags 567485 wontfix thanks Jean-Christophe Dubacq <jcduba...@free.fr> writes:
> Though the check is correct, it should not be severity serious: the > format of the Changed-By (and the Maintainer field) is not mandated by a > MUST, only a SHOULD. I don't agree for two reasons: * maintainer-name-missing and uploader-name-missing are both automatic rejects in the ftp-master checks, which makes them automatically severity: serious in Lintian. That's not the specific one that you're asking about, but that's the rule that Changed-By references. * The Policy description for Changed-By says "The name and email address of the person who changed the said package." That's not a should. That's a statement of what that field shall include, which means that if it doesn't have the name and e-mail address, it's a syntax error and therefore is a violation of an implicit must. I see where your reading is coming from, but suspect the best fix is to just change the Policy wording to make it clear that this is a must. There's really no reason to use a different format, and Debian elsewhere already requires names. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
