Quoting Paul Gevers (2026-05-11 16:34:55) > TL;DR: I declare weak ownership in my package by using "Debian Commons > <[email protected]>" as the maintainer and myself as uploader. [...] > Background (my view) > ==================== > > Debian has a model of strong package ownership but often package > maintainers don't want that for (some of) their packages. While the > LowThresholdNmu process exists to declare that NMUs for ones packages > are fine under rather wide conditions, DebianCommons is created to sit > between LowThresholdNmu owned packaging and Orphaning. A package > maintainer that uses the DebianCommons way of setting the Maintainer > field probably considers themselves something like a shepherd of the > package: they takes care of it in a low maintenance mode (occasional new > upstream version upload and dealing with severe bugs) and they don't > want to claim ownership.
Thanks a lot for introducing this. What I particularly like about it, and find frustratingly ambiguous with the "debian" namespace on Salsa, is that it explicitly goes beyond NMU-ish activities. For packages that I consider simple enough that anyone can apply not only small changes but e.g. also a refactoring from dh to cdbs-ng and upload without coordination, I will adopt this new scheme. For packages where I want to encourage collaboration for _preparing_ uploads but where I expect the Uploaders field to indicate whom to coordinate prior to uploading non-NMU-ish changes, I will move away from the salsa "debian" namespace, as I consider the ambiguity of that too problematic. - Jonas ¹ In my mind it is plain wrong, but I understand that interpretation is no better than that of anyone else, so I have given up trying to argue and consider moving a slew of packages *away* from the "debian" namespace to avoid future surprises for pa what I expect is -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
