> BTW, This is also the way it works in Debian, it does seems to work there.
> > Of course the last uploader is visible in the changelog and the > uploader is > > supposed to have a look at the bugtracker after the NMU, but the > maintainer > > doesn't change. > > Debian packages track package's changelog, so you have a more accurate > view of what was happening. > Yeah definitely, but it should not so complicated for us to do the same thing (in fact, some maintainers already manually maintain a changelog like the Debian one). > > > I am rather for reverting back "last uploaded by" to "maintained by" and > > doing NMU without changing the maintainer, and eventually add the last > > uploader information somewhere. > > The thing I'm trying to say is that we don't store the information who > the maintainer is. In practice, we only store information who last > uploaded it. This is how it works in practice, and this is how we > should treat information. This leads to imperfections such as the QA > page listing the last uploader, but it's simply because we don't have > the information who the long-term owner of the package is (or if there > is one at all). > > So in my opinion we have the last uploader information available, and > what we need to do, is adding the maintainer field. > Ok, eventually the result is the same we will have both information. That's fine for me. > > > So let's agree on the fake maintainer name and the mailing list ! > > "Orphanage Caretaker team", "Orphaned package", ... ? > > [email protected] ? > > (hmm, I am not very inspired here). > > Maybe even an existing mailing list such as 'devel' or 'pkgrequests'. > I would be hesitant to set this to 'maintainers' because of spam > potential (?). > I don't think all maintainers are interested in co-maintaing orphaned package even in best effort mode, so I agree that it's best not to use 'maintainers'. Yann
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