Policy: Obsolete the DM-Upload-Allowed field.

Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #679326
See: http://lists.debian.org/87vcf6lbw4.fsf@deep-thought.43-1.org

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 4dec04c405dd052c85ce53dc732f7208ce96a169..10e626babf857a9c1b25e56444ae3d75f9f12e2c 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2649,7 +2649,6 @@ Package: libc6
            <item><qref id="f-Source"><tt>Source</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
            <item><qref id="f-Maintainer"><tt>Maintainer</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
            <item><qref id="f-Uploaders"><tt>Uploaders</tt></qref></item>
-           <item><qref id="f-DM-Upload-Allowed"><tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt></qref></item>
            <item><qref id="f-Section"><tt>Section</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
            <item><qref id="f-Priority"><tt>Priority</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
            <item><qref id="sourcebinarydeps"><tt>Build-Depends</tt> et al</qref></item>
@@ -2748,7 +2747,6 @@ Package: libc6
          <item><qref id="f-Version"><tt>Version</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
          <item><qref id="f-Maintainer"><tt>Maintainer</tt></qref> (mandatory)</item>
          <item><qref id="f-Uploaders"><tt>Uploaders</tt></qref></item>
-         <item><qref id="f-DM-Upload-Allowed"><tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt></qref></item>
          <item><qref id="f-Homepage"><tt>Homepage</tt></qref></item>
          <item><qref id="f-VCS-fields"><tt>Vcs-Browser</tt>, <tt>Vcs-Git</tt>, et al.</qref></item>
          <item><qref id="f-Standards-Version"><tt>Standards-Version</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
@@ -3749,20 +3747,11 @@ Checksums-Sha256:
          </p>
        </sect1>
 
-       <sect1 id="f-DM-Upload-Allowed">
+       <sect1>
          <heading><tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt></heading>
 
          <p>
-           Indicates that Debian Maintainers may upload this package to
-           the Debian archive.  The only valid value is <tt>yes</tt>.  If
-           the field <tt>DM-Upload-Allowed: yes</tt> is present in the
-           source section of the source control file of the most recent
-           version of a package in unstable or experimental, the Debian
-           archive will accept uploads of this package signed with a key
-           in the Debian Maintainer keyring.  See the General
-           Resolution <url id="http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_003"
-           name="Endorse the concept of Debian Maintainers"> for more
-           details.
+           Obsolete, see <qref id="f-DM-Upload-Allowed">below</qref>.
          </p>
        </sect1>
 
@@ -3858,6 +3847,28 @@ Checksums-Sha256:
 
       </sect>
 
+      <sect id="obsolete-control-data-fields">
+       <heading>Obsolete fields</heading>
+
+       <p>
+         The following fields have been obsoleted and may be found in packages
+         conforming with previous versions of the Policy.
+       </p>
+
+       <sect1 id="f-DM-Upload-Allowed">
+         <heading><tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt></heading>
+
+         <p>
+           Indicates that Debian Maintainers may upload this package to
+           the Debian archive.  The only valid value is <tt>yes</tt>.  This
+           field was used to regulate uploads by Debian Maintainers, See the
+           General Resolution <url id="http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_003"
+           name="Endorse the concept of Debian Maintainers"> for more details.
+         </p>
+       </sect1>
+
+      </sect>
+
     </chapt>