[csw-maintainers] Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Fri Oct 11 19:31:01 CEST 2013


"Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> 2013/10/11 Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
>> I agree with this kludge only if its presence in the recipe is mandatory.
>
> Hm. We could make it mandatory, but then the default value should be
> "nobody" or something of the same meaning. The reason is that only a
> subset of packages have people who care about them. If we copy the
> current state from the package catalog, we'll effectively freeze the
> current package-maintainer relationship mapping. We will also not know
> whether there is anyone that cares about certain package. Therefore,
> there will be no gain.

Really I do not understand. As shown in my previous messages, we know
where to take the information, where to give it a good
usage. Conceptually it's not difficult. Unfortunately I do not have the
resources to implement this.

>From my point of view, I consider this discussion closed as I don't like
to run in circle chasing my tail.
-- 
Peter


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