Rewriting update-maintainer

Kees Cook kees at ubuntu.com
Sat Dec 18 00:00:01 UTC 2010


On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 06:56:18PM -0500, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Kees Cook <kees at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> 3) Move the maintainer from the "Maintainer" to
> >> "XSBC-Original-Maintainer" field and set "Ubuntu Developers
> >> <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>" as new Maintainer.
> >
> > This depends on the component target, so you need to look that up first
> > (lines 33 through 42).
> 
> My understanding is that "Ubuntu MOTU Developers
> <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>" and "Ubuntu Core Developers
> <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>" have been deprecated in favor
> of using "Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>"
> The Debian Maintainer Field Spec [1] seems to back this up.
> 
> - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
> 
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField

Ah yeah, true enough.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team



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