Quoting Tobias Frost (2026-08-15 10:25:18) > One final clarification: this mail is not intended to reopen the > broader discussion about the usefulness or future of the Uploaders > field. That is a separate discussion, and this is not the place to > have it.
Quoting Sebastiaan Couwenberg (2026-08-15 12:41:27) > On 8/15/26 12:10 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Sebastiaan Couwenberg (2026-08-15 11:07:03) > >> On 8/15/26 10:25 AM, Tobias Frost wrote: > >>> But this is not just an MIA team task. The Uploaders field is part of > >>> the package's maintenance metadata, and keeping it reasonably accurate > >>> should be part of maintaining the package. If you notice that someone > >>> listed there no longer appears to be actively maintaining the package, > >>> please consider cleaning it up. > >> > >> This will result in no-human-maintainers lintian issues, because many > >> packages are on life support with team uploads where no person wants to > >> commit to the package by adding themselves to Uploaders. > >> > >> I guess we should just acknowledge that fact in the override comment. > > > > If noone in a team wants to commit to a package by adding themselves as > > in the Uploaders field, it seems that package is team-*un*maintained > > and that fact should be acknowledged by moving the package to QA team. > > The package is still team maintained, new upstream releases get packaged and > bugs get triaged, but only the minimum amount of effort is put in those > packages. > > Orphaning the package will make it fall of radar and not even receive that > little work. > > I'd prefer for policy 5.6.3 to drop the "at least one human" requirement, to > allow for team maintained packages no person takes responsibility for. It seems you want to discuss changing the rules - that's confusing. This thread is about existing rules. - Jonas -- * 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
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