[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: about the pkg-zope repositories

[Jonas Meurer]

On 16/08/2005 Derrick Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:06:08AM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> | Il giorno mar, 16/08/2005 alle 10.39 +0200, Andreas Tille ha scritto:
> 
> | > My hope was that *you* would know this.  I think in the uploaders field
> | > has to be a e-mail address which is in the Debian keyring which
> | > pkg-zope-devel
> | > is definitely not.  The reasoning behind my intention was that anybody
> | > who is reading this can feel free to add his own upload addres to this
> | > field if necessary.  I have no idea how this can be done else.  People
> | > who raised the group maintainance issue might perhaps know more ...
> | 
> | Might the use of the pkg-zope-devel address in che changelog (with the
> | use of "-k" switch for dpkg-buildpackage to specify the gpg key to use
> | to sign the packages) be a good idea?
> 
> That sounds like it could be a good idea.  I think it would be good
> for the changelog to identify who did the upload, maybe just as
> information in the comments section or maybe as the real name next to
> the address.
> 
> As long as all of the source code for the upload is in the shared
> repository, I don't think an upload should be considered "NMU" because
> the "M" doesn't need to obtain and integrate the changes because they
> are already in the repository.  This is one significant advantage I
> can see with using a repository to manage the package as opposed to a
> single person with just their own hard drive.

i think that this is what Maintainer and Uploaders fields in
debian/control are for. the address in the changelog if for identifying
who uploaded the package and not for setting a responsible contact.

so as far as i understand (and have seen at other team uploads) the
changelog address should be the one of the developer who actually signed
and uploaded the package.
if his/her address is also in the Uploaders field, it's a normal team
upload, no NMU. the Maintainer field should be to the team's mailinglist
adress.
i hope that i got everything right.

bye
 jonas
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