[csw-maintainers] NMUs, non-maintainer uploads

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Fri Apr 12 20:56:33 CEST 2013


Hi Peter,

Am 12.04.2013 um 20:45 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> Yann Rouillard <yann at pleiades.fr.eu.org> writes:
>> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/database/mysql-server-5.5
>>> 
>>> ...it lists multiple maintainers. For a package such as MySQL, it
>>> makes complete sense. I don't know the internals, but I'm pretty sure
>>> that the list of maintainer is kept as a separate entity from the
>>> changelog.
>> 
>> 
>> The maintainers's information is located in the debian/control file, in the
>> source package.
> 
> Our "control" file is the recipe, i.e., the Makefile. Having a variable
> containing a list of maintainers seems to be a nice addition. What Dag
> thinks about this?

I am ok with this.
  MAINTAINED_BY += pfelecan
  MAINTAINED_BY += dam

How would a workflow look like?


Best regards

  -- Dago


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