On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:52:54 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > In Debian we have several teams working on maintaining large numbers > of packages (pkg-games, pkg-perl, pkg-gnome for example).
True :) > I > proposed[1] to silence the lintian NMU warnings in the case of "team > uploads"; where the person doing the upload is a member of the team in > Maintainers but is not present in Uploaders. Does anyone think this > concept of "team uploads" has merit? I agree that having to add yourself to Uploaders to avoid NMU warnings (or listings under "sponsored uploads" on the DDPO page) is a pain. I'm just not sure about a viable solution; adding "Team upload" to the changelog is clumsy too and only helps against the lintian warnings but not against other mechanisms. (And I agree with statements by others that NMU versions are wrong and that group-address-in-changelog-trailer is at least weird.) IMO the general problem is that our tools (both the locally installed ones and the infrastructures ones) don't have a concept of "teams" and "team membership" in itself. If we had a possibility to declare/detect "this package is team-maintained by $team, and $person is member of $team", it would be easier ... Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Joan Baez: For Sasha
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