Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-12 Thread Gergely Nagy
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > Which bad things happened that we have to change the current process? As far as I see, it's more about "what good things didn't happen" why we have to change the process. That is also addresses a few corner cases that could've gone bad, but never did is a side-effect. -

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:57:49PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > The ftp team wants to change how allowing Debian Maintainers to upload > packages works. The current approach with the DM-Upload-Allowed field > has a few issues we would like to address: I have read three responses to th

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/12/2012 12:24 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: >>> - It allows DMs to grant permissions to other DMs. >> >> It is far from clear that forbidding this is the right thing to do. > > As far as I know, we did this intentionally. When a DM is the maintainer > of a package, they should b

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: > > - It allows DMs to grant permissions to other DMs. > > It is far from clear that forbidding this is the right thing to do. As far as I know, we did this intentionally. When a DM is the maintainer of a package, they should be able to move it to team maintenance without need

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads"): > (Please send followup messages to -project.) > > The ftp team wants to change how allowing Debian Maintainers to upload > packages works. The current approach with the DM-Upload-Allowed field >

Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, (Please send followup messages to -project.) The ftp team wants to change how allowing Debian Maintainers to upload packages works. The current approach with the DM-Upload-Allowed field has a few issues we would like to address: - It applies to all DMs listed as Maintainer/Uploaders. It is