Hi, Many years ago, the Debian GNOME team added debian/control.in and began using gnome-pkg-tools to generate the Uploaders field (gnome-pkg-tools does some other things too). This satisfied Debian Policy's requirement to have at least one human listed in either Maintainer or Uploaders without burdening people with getting emails, bug reports, etc. for packages they hadn't touched in years.
The team has changed over the years and I don't think the benefit of generating debian/control outweighs the complexity. Therefore, I propose we stop doing it. - Already, several of the newer team packages or extensions aren't using debian/control.in - It is one extra complication for people new to our team's packages to remember. - Even for those of us who have dealt with it for years, it is easy to forget to manually update debian/control and this can introduce or hide serious bugs. I am ok with my name being in Uploaders. Anyone else is free to add their name to packages they upload to avoid needing to add "Team upload" to the changelog to avoid some Lintian warnings about NMUs. Or people can remove their name from Uploaders as long as they leave at least one human there. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
