Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: wishlist I was always wondering (concerning 5.6.2/5.6.3):
1) The "Maintainer" field can contain only ONE contributor, whereas there may be several to the package. 2) The "Uploaders" field can contain several people, whereas - technically - there can be only one uploader. Furthermore, having the "Uploaders" field is redundant anyhow, since the actual DD/DM who uploaded can be found from his/her signature. "Uploaders" might also just be the wrong description. Either it should be called "Contributors", since it often contains the actual contributors (that's even what policy says) and - sometimes - even not the actual uploader. In addition to point 2) above, it might as well be dropped, if "Maintainer" was allowed to contain several people. Sometimes it simply contains a group anyhow (like the PHP people at alioth and such). Since neither the Maintainer nor Uploaders field actually needs to contain any DD/DM all this becomes even more strange. I'm not sure why all of this is that way. It just seems to have evolved that way - for whatever reasons and I'm just saying that it seems not very logical. ;-) JM PS. I don't know what the actual request here is. I'm sure nothing here can be straightened out over night. Just keep these few bits as comments in case you would be working on this anytime in the future. Also feel free to discuss ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
