Bug#563761: Maintainer address is a closed list

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Tue Jan 5 03:57:04 UTC 2010


Package: grub
Version: 0.97-60
Severity: serious

Policy §3.3 states that '[t]he maintainer must be specified in the
Maintainer control field with their correct name and a working email
address.'  General opinion on debian-project is that a closed list
address is not suitable.

Instead of rejecting all mails from non-subscribers you should some
combination of heuristic spam filtering and human moderation.

Ben.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash





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