Re: Maintainer: Debian Commons

On 11/05/26 16:34, Paul Gevers wrote:
> TL;DR: I declare weak ownership in my package by using "Debian Commons 
> <[email protected]>" as the maintainer and myself as uploader.

Hi Paul,

thank you a lot for pushing this. And great name!

Just for reference, this is the beginning of a 2024 discussion about 
this topic of "low-commitment maintenance":

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/12/msg00279.html

That thread contains various arguments pro and against this kind of 
package ownership model, as well as some technical details about how to 
implement this in the best way. No consensus has been reached on the 
technical side. (I hope the reactions to your message mean that 
"political" consensus is, in fact, in place.)

I'm linking this just to make sure that past technical arguments (first 
and foremost, which email address to use) are acknowledged in this new 
round of discussions.

> DDPO shows all packages using Debian Commons together like here:
> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=viking%40packages.debian.org

What witchery is that?

Does DDPO first looks up the name associated to an email address and 
then searchers for all maintainers/uploaders that match that name?

Regards,