Re: Moving orphaned packages to maintainer teams

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On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 10:43:14AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> For everyone's context: this is about a recently orphaned package that m=
oved
>> to the python team. This is some discussion about if orphaned packages c=
ould be moved
>> to maintainer teams namespace instead of `debian/` namespace and whether=
 or
>> not lintian should be adjusted here.
>
>I don't think that this should be allowed, except by a member of that
>team, doing the moral equivalent of adding themselves to Uploaders.
>By this I mean: committing to looking after it at least somewhat.
>
>My point is that even in the absence of a hard requirement to have a
>human name in Uploaders, we still shouldn't move packages under teams
>unless there is someone on that team who would be willing to add their
>name to Uploaders in the current world.

Yes, just like we don't want orphaned packages to be dropped into our=20
teams for maintenance, we don't want orphaned packages' repos to be=20
dropped into our team namespaces either.

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WBR, wRAR

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