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

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:15:11 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
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Charles Plessy [16/Feb  7:19pm +09] wrote:
> Le Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:20:56AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>>
>> The contact point problem remains, of course. Personally, I'd love for
>> packaging teams to publish a list of individual people who are points of
>> contact, but I realize that's just one more thing to keep up to date.
>
> I think that in the teams where I participate, it makes sense to have no
> Uploader field in packages where nobody wants to have them in their developers
> dasboard (as opposed to the teams dasboard).
>
> But if that is putting too much pressure on other teams, maybe I will
> propose to just add this to our routine update scripts:
>
>     grep -q '^Uploaders:' debian/control ||
>         cme modify dpkg-control "source Uploaders=\"$(dpkg-parsechangelog -S Maintainer)\""
>
> And leave it to the team members to remove themselves from the Uploader field
> in the VCS whenever they want.

IIUC you are copying a non-human name from Maintainers to Uploaders,
which would violate a Policy "must" and thus be an RC bug.  That's the
whole thing we're discussing here.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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