Bug#343871: vdr - lists mailing list as uploader in changelog

Stephen Gran sgran at debian.org
Mon Dec 19 00:14:31 UTC 2005


This one time, at band camp, Bastian Blank said:
> Package: vdr
> Version: 1.3.37-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> vdr lists a mailing list as uploader in the changelog. The policy
> specifies:
> 
> | 4.4 Debian changelog: debian/changelog
> [...]
> | The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog should be
> | the details of the person uploading this version. They are not
> | necessarily those of the usual package maintainer. The information here
> | will be copied to the Changed-By field in the .changes file (see
> | Changed-By, Section 5.6.4), and then later used to send an
> | acknowledgement when the upload has been installed.
> 
> and
> 
> | 5.6.4 Changed-By
> |
> | The name and email address of the person who changed the said package.
> | Usually the name of the maintainer. All the rules for the Maintainer
> | field apply here, too.
> 
> Bastian

And I thought the last time this was discussed on -devel, we had no
clear consensus this was a sufficiently heinous act that the package
should not be part of the next stable release.  Suboptimal? probably.
RC?  I thought the consensus was no.
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