On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 06:58:32PM +0100, Tobias Frost wrote:
If explicit person -> package associations become optional, individual inactivity within teams would no longer be a project-level concern. MIA could then no longer operate under its current model, as one of the structured signals linking individuals to packages would not be consistently available. While other heuristics may still exist, they are not equivalent to an explicit and declared association, and are operationally much more expensive.
I am in the Uploaders field of hundreds of packages. I view this as useless overhead. If I were to disappear, how do you imagine my name's presence or absence in debian/control would help anyone?
