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

Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:36:18 +0100

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Quoting Andreas Tille (2026-02-17 09:05:08)
> Am Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 03:46:25PM +0100 schrieb Tobias Frost:
[...]
> > There are teams that are
> > very well organized and we've never had issues with; We've
> > got agreements with some teams how to handle their retirement cases and
> > that worked well; but those teams are usually not sources of concerns
> > for the MIA team; usually those agreements are in the line of "don't
> > file bugs, send us a mail that someone went missing and we'll use our
> > automation to update the Uploaders file".)
> 
> I would very much welcome this becoming the default way of dealing with
> such situations.

Do you mean to say, that you would welcome treating only very well
organized teams as teams in Debian?

I mean, what Tobias says about teams is likely same for human beings as
well: Very well organized human beings don't go missing but properly
retire or in other ways inform their surroundings before $life happens
to them. Your response is "great, let's then streamline around those
types of beings, because that sounds lovely", but it feels to me that
you are missing an important point in there...

 - Jonas

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