Quoting Simon Josefsson (2026-08-16 10:31:59) > Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> writes: > > > 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. > > I disagree -- and think this is at the core of what proper "team" > maintainance of packages could be. > > To me, team maintainance would be one where the team as a collective > take responsibility for a package, but no individual person insists on > the ego-boost of assigning personal ownership of the outcome, and > through social means of the Uploader field signal that others should not > feel the same level of ownership.
Do you mean "could be" and "would be" as future tense? I am not simply nitpicking here - I genuinely find it quite confusing to mix in speculations about future Debian into a conversation about current rules in Debian. - 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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