Re: Moving orphaned packages to maintainer teams

Quoting Sean Whitton (2026-07-23 11:43:14)
> Nilesh Patra [20/Jul 11:46am +0530] wrote:
> > Moving to -devel
> >
> > For everyone's context: this is about a recently orphaned package that =
moved
> > to the python team. This is some discussion about if orphaned packages =
could be moved
> > to maintainer teams namespace instead of `debian/` namespace and whethe=
r or
> > not lintian should be adjusted here.
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> 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.
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> 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.

I fully agree - which is why in my opinion we really need human names
also for teams: How else track that the humans in the team truly caring
for a package is still around in a team 6 months later?

 - Jonas

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