Hi, On 12/29/25 16:07, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
Specifically the proposal would be:- Packages with the Maintainer: field email being [email protected] should be affected (this being the "Debian QA Group"). - These packages, if they are not in testing, should be prevented from entering testing. - An override in the hand of the Release Team should be available. Questions: - Are you open to this?
I personally don't like the idea, but if there's a majority of the project that thinks this is a good idea, who am I to object. I've always been against strong package ownership by default, I think there's a big class of packages that are fine to be maintained by the "Debian QA group". So I think this would need a bit of consensus creation and documentation. In my opinion including how then to maintain packages with weak ownership.
And to get it straight, I'm assuming a lot. What do you want to achieve (and can't you achieve it with existing tools like RC bugs)?
- If so, do you need a new datasource for britney for this?
From the above, no. Maintainer field is already available in the Sources file.
Paul
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