Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL)

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Feb 2026 21:39:21 +0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 06:34:00AM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
>On the contrary, I would actually ask you to consider using it more
>often. For example you have done all golang-go.crypto uploads in
>(nearly) the past year, but you didn't add yourself as Uploader, so
>the package does not show up at
>https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?jas%40debian.org#todo

I've never used this page but as it seems to contain random packages I 
don't maintain, it doesn't seem to be a priority to start using it and 
modify metadata of packages for that.

>and/or you don't get copies of bug reports filed against it.

Do you think people in Uploaders get those? How?

> Also feel free to clean up the Uploaders list
>from people who haven't been active for several years.

It's easy to say "feel free" but I don't think it's actually allowed to do 
that.

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