Charles Plessy [16/Feb 7:19pm +09] wrote: > Le Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:20:56AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> >> The contact point problem remains, of course. Personally, I'd love for >> packaging teams to publish a list of individual people who are points of >> contact, but I realize that's just one more thing to keep up to date. > > I think that in the teams where I participate, it makes sense to have no > Uploader field in packages where nobody wants to have them in their developers > dasboard (as opposed to the teams dasboard). > > But if that is putting too much pressure on other teams, maybe I will > propose to just add this to our routine update scripts: > > grep -q '^Uploaders:' debian/control || > cme modify dpkg-control "source Uploaders=\"$(dpkg-parsechangelog -S > Maintainer)\"" > > And leave it to the team members to remove themselves from the Uploader field > in the VCS whenever they want.
IIUC you are copying a non-human name from Maintainers to Uploaders, which would violate a Policy "must" and thus be an RC bug. That's the whole thing we're discussing here. -- Sean Whitton
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