On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:35:54AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> > I've got another request, but I reckon it's a katie one: it would be
> > really nice if the Maintainer could be a mailing list (eg,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and that katie would recognise one of a small
> > list of names and emails for the Changed-By field as being maintainers
> > for the package. I'm sure there are several packages like this which
> > would benefit from such a change. If I learn Python one day, I would
> > happily write a patch for this.
>
> That's why this change is for. You set the Maintainer in debian/control to be
> the uploader. This way, katie will do the right thing. However, using the
> above debbugs feature, bug reports can go elsewhere, your above mentioned
> list.
But I'm *not* the maintainer; I'm one of a group of maintainers. If
we do this, then every time one of us uploads, we need to change the
maintainer name in the control file.
Julian
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