clone 567485 -1 reassign -1 debian-policy retitle -1 Clarify that Changed-By must have name and email address severity -1 wishlist tags -1 = thanks On 20/03/2010 23:51, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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.
Then let's reassign to debian-policy. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
