Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Ola Lundqvist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > A common way is to list the contact address for the group > as maintainer and each person responsible for uploads in Uploaders. > You miss non official Debian developers this way though. This is the way d-i packages are handled. This is also the way I

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ola Lundqvist dijo [Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:37:33AM +0200]: > > * Sean Perry [Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:36:49 -0800]: > > > > > Source: mysource > > > Maintainer: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Maintainers: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > I left the Maintainer in place to a

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Frank Küster [Tue, Mar 29 2005, 02:25:03PM]: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some people call that file MAINTAINERS, some README.svn or similar, and > > some do not do this at all, so someone needs to ask somebody or get a > > crystal ball to learn about the repository of

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-29 Thread Frank Küster
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello fellow maintainers, > > with organisation in groups becoming more and more popular, IMO it is now > time to find some convention for declaring the group members and > guidelines inside of the Debian source package. > > Some people call that file MAIN

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Ola Lundqvist [Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:37:33 +0200]: > A common way is to list the contact address for the group > as maintainer and each person responsible for uploads in Uploaders. > You miss non official Debian developers this way though. Nothing mandates that the Uploaders field is DD-only, A

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-28 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 28 March 2005 12:30, David Schmitt wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2005 00:04, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > I suggest debian/README.Debian.Maintainers as the filename. > > Hmm .. Following from README to README.Debian, wouldn't AUTHORS.Debian make > more sense? > > Also, often this list is already

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-28 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 28 March 2005 00:04, Eduard Bloch wrote: > I suggest debian/README.Debian.Maintainers as the filename. Hmm .. Following from README to README.Debian, wouldn't AUTHORS.Debian make more sense? Also, often this list is already present in debian/copyright ("packaged by ...") Regards, Da

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-28 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 07:45:31AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Sean Perry [Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:36:49 -0800]: > > > Source: mysource > > Maintainer: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Maintainers: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I left the Maintainer in place to allow

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Sean Perry [Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:36:49 -0800]: > Source: mysource > Maintainer: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maintainers: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I left the Maintainer in place to allow for some backwards > compatibility. This could be the 'captain' of the project.

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-27 Thread Sean Perry
Eduard Bloch wrote: So I suggest to set a kind of soft policy: every package maintained by a group should keep a file (with a common filename) in the Debian diff, which tells all neccessary things: - who are members of that group - which person from this group is responsible for exactly this pack