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From: Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
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Harald Arnesen wrote:

> Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>How does Marcelo (or Linus or Alan, say) know that the patch
>>_really_ came from the subsystem aintainer himself?
>>
> 
> They could reject patches that came without the maintainers GPG or PGP
> signature.
> 

Why? If the patch seem to come from a maintainer AND the quality of
patch is ok, why to require some other 'burocratic' steps?

	giacomo




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