> 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. You see this term to limited to the actual upload happening. Uploaders are those people, that in addition to Maintainer: are allowed to upload the package during the package lifetime. Not just for one upload. > Furthermore, having the "Uploaders" field is redundant anyhow, since > the actual DD/DM who uploaded can be found from his/her signature. Only for the one upload. > "Uploaders" might also just be the wrong description. Oh yes, its entirely wrong. > 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. Not enough benefit to change it now. > 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 am pretty much against changing the definition of the maintainer field. One primary point of contact, and one only. Be that a mailing list (but then you need one human in uploaders) or a person, but its one main contact in case everything else fails. -- bye, Joerg <HE> Joerg knuddeln ist wie mit Skorpionen schlafen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
