Sean Whitton [17/Feb 9:15am GMT] wrote: > 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.
My mistake, you're copying it from d/changelog, which is an interesting idea, thanks. -- Sean Whitton
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