Re: Bug#459868: debian-policy: Definition of Maintainer: when using a mailing list
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:58:10PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > It does ? How a mailing list can upload package ? It seems you are using
> > > > a functional field for documentation purpose.
> > > I'm sorry, Uploaders has no "function" except when combined with
> > > DM-Upload-Allowed. One can perfectly upload a package without being in the
> > > Uploaders in the default case.
> > Not true, Uploaders is used by the archive software to determine whether an
> > upload is an NMU or not, and whether bugs Closes:ed in the changelog should
> > be marked as closed or marked as 'fixed in NMU' in the BTS. That is
> > actually its raison d'être.
> Wrong. "fixed in NMU" is no more used by dak. It's all version-closed
> nowadays.
However, it has been discussed that bugs that are fixed in NMU should
continue to be tagged 'fixed' so that they can be found again by the
maintainer and treated specially where archiving is concerned...
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