Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-11-29 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 630578 informative discussion thanks Le Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:48:11PM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > For the purpose of policy, the "Uploader" (with big square quote) is the > person whose name appears in the changelog line between -- and the

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* PJ Weisberg [Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 08:46:22AM -0700]: > On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I'm not sure if we can make it much more obvious than what it currently > > says.  There's no mention or hint of permissions anywhere in the > > description you quote, and it specifically

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread PJ Weisberg
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm not sure if we can make it much more obvious than what it currently > says.  There's no mention or hint of permissions anywhere in the > description you quote, and it specifically says "co-maintainers." I believe the confusion comes from the

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Bill Allombert [Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 02:48:11PM +0200]: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:33:03PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > > | 5.6.3 Uploaders [...] > > I don't mean to nit-pick but I just had a discussion with some DDs > > about who should be really listed in the Uploaders field: a) people > >

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:33:03PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: normal > > | 5.6.3 Uploaders > | > | List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the > | package, if any. If the package has other maintainers besides the > | one named in the Mainta

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Russ Allbery [Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 07:30:37AM -0700]: > Michael Prokop writes: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders > > reads as follows: > > | 5.6.3 Uploaders > > | > > | List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the > > | package, if

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Prokop writes: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders > reads as follows: > | 5.6.3 Uploaders > | > | List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the > | package, if any. If the package has other maintainers besides the > | one named

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi, I will second Emilio's response here... In the Debian Perl Group, I have been marked Uploader of many of our packages (though I'm not yet a DD), since otherwise Lintian complains about it (with the exception of the more recently introduced new Team Upload syntax). I would suggest that anyone

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hi, On 15/06/11 13:33, Michael Prokop wrote: > I don't mean to nit-pick but I just had a discussion with some DDs > about who should be really listed in the Uploaders field: a) people > with Upload *permissions* [DMs/DDs] and therefore actually uploading > the package (if not being the maintainer

Bug#630578: debian-policy: clarify usage of Uploaders field

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Uploaders reads as follows: | 5.6.3 Uploaders | | List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the | package, if any. If the package has other maintainers besides the | one nam