Bug#563763: Maintainer address is a closed list

[Robert Millan]

severity 563763 wishlist
thanks

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:56:21AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Package: grub2
> Version: 1.98~20100101-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Policy §3.3 states that '[t]he maintainer must be specified in the
> Maintainer control field with their correct name and a working email
> address.'

Ok.

> General opinion on debian-project is that a closed list
> address is not suitable.

In that case, I think you'll have no trouble getting Policy ammended so that
§3.3 says explicitly that a subscriber-only list is not suitable.

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Robert Millan

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